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To the READ ER.
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LG long diſcourſe concerning the na-
FIN ture, definition, and uſe of Pro-
verbs, my notion of a Proverb
in brief is this, A Short Sen-

tence or Phraſe in common uſe containing [ome

Trope, Figure, Homonymy » Rhythme or other

0 novity of expreſſion, 1t's now ſome ten years
or more ſince 1 began this Collection; in order

to the compleating whereof, I read over all fore

mer printed Catalogues that I could meet with;

then I obſerved all that occurred in familiar

diſcourſe, and employed my friends and acquain-

tance in ſeveral parts of England is the "like

obſervation and enquiry, who afforded me large

contributions, When I thought I had a [uf ficts

ent ſtock, I began to con hy of a convenient

Mcthod to liſpeſe them in, ſo as readily and w_

lie to find any Proverb upon occaſion, for that

1 had obſerved wanting in all former Collecti-
ons, Two preſently * io my thoughts ,
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both already practiſed by others, 1. The Alphu-
betical order, 2, The way of heads or common
places, This laſt made uſe of by Clerk in his
Adagia Latino Anglica, wherein he ; A
the heads of that great Work, commonly ł nom
by the name of Eraſmus his Adages , though
indeed it be @ complex of the Adages of Era(-
mus, Junius, Cognatus , Braſſicanus and -
thers, and wherein the Chiliads of Eraſmus
are miſerably mangled, ſhuffled and diſtratted,
To theſe he accommodates and with theſe Ada-
ges be parallels our Engliſh ones 4s many 4s
he can, This way of heads or common places
1 bave rejected upon ſeveral conſiderations.

I, Becauſe the number of common places
would be tos great, or elſe ſame Proverbs muſt
have been referred to improper heads; and
many Titles would not have had above one er
two Proverbs wnder them,

2. Becauſe contrive your beads with 48 much
ce and circumſpettion 4s is poſable, Some
Proverbs will be found reducible to more then
one, and ſo muſt bave been repeated,

3. This is no way for finding any Proverb
upon occaſion, ſo that beſides the Book there
would be an Index neceſſary for that purpoſe,
which would be as big as a good part of the Book,

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4. In the Alphabetical way the Proverbs
moſt of them will be found reduced to beads, as
thoſe fo example which belong to a begger,
a tool, a dog, a horſe, &c, will come 10
ther, The Method I have made choice of is this,
Firſt 1 have Culled out the Proverbs belong-
ing to three Hrads or Common places, becauſe.
they are very numerous, and put by themſelves
in the firſt place, The Remainder I have di-
vided into three general Heads or Claſſes.
1. Compleat Sentences, 2, Phraſes or forms
of Speech, 3, Similies, The Proverbs be-
longing to each of theſe Heads, I have put in
an Alphabetical order: not taking , 4s others
heretofore have done, the firſt Letter of any
though Syncategorematical particle that might
hapten to ſtand formoſt in the Sentence, and
which is both remove able and variable without
any prejudice to the ſence ; but the firſt Letter of
the moſt material Word, or if there be more
words equally material, of that which uſually
ſtands formoſt. And under every Letter I have
alſo put theſe words in Alphabetical order, and
cauſed them to be Printed in a different Chara-
cer, that ſo with the leaſt caſt of an eye any
man may find any Proverb, of which he remem-
bers the moſt [ubſtantial words, All ſuperſti-
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tious and groundleſs Obſervations of Augiry,
days , hours and the like, I have 5 0+
mitted , becauſe I wiſh that they were quite
eraſed out of peoples memories, and ſbould be
loath to be any way inſtrumental in tranſmit-
ting them to poſterity. Such alſo as are openly
obſcene 1 have rejected, yet accepting many
that are homely and lovenly, becauſe elſe I muſt
have left ont a good namber of the moſt witty
and ſignificant of our Engliſh Proverbs,

I mizht have added large Commentaries, ſhew-
ing the Original, the meaning and uſe of each
Proverb, but that I forbear upon good reaſons,
I, Becaw/e theſe Proverbs bring generally uſed
and well known to the wulgar, I feared leſt I
might incurre juſt blame, for endeavouring to
explain that of which no body is ignorant, 2 Be-
cawſe it would (well the Book to too great abulk,
and ſo render it leſs uſefull and vendible, ma-
uy wanting ability or will to purchaſe, and
more leiſure or patience to read 4 great Book :
eſteeming 4s is commonly ſaid, Mea g,
ioov Tol ν˖A-eͤ h N.

And leaſt any thing ſhould be wanting in
this Collection, I have added. 1, Local Pro-
verbs. with their explications out of D* Th.
Fuller his Work of the Worthies of England,

adding

To the Reader.

adding thereto 'ſuch; others as came to my
hands or memory, ſince the finiſhing of the

precedent Catalogues, 2. A. Catalogue

Proverbs which I gathered out of formerly
Printed Collections; the greateſt part where»
of axe not Engliſh, but French, \ Spaniſh,
Italian, Dutch or Welſh, Epgliſhed , for
the moſt part tranſcribed out of M* Howell,
3, Some old Engliſh Saws, and a Miſ-
celany of Proverbs partly ruſtick and rude :
partly ſach as came to my knowledge after
the former Catalogues were compleated, Laſt-
ly, to theſe I have added the Scotch Pro-
verbs Colle Fed by David Ferguſſon Miniſter
of Dunfermlin: and ſo much the rather be-
cauſe . they are not in M* Howels Colle-
ions.

The Books which 1 have made uſe of
principally are, 1, The Childrens Dictio-
nary, 4 Book well known formerly in ſchools,
in which there is an Alphabet of Latine Pro-
verbs parallel d with Engliſh, 2.Camdens Re-
mains, in which alſo there are a good num-
ber of Engliſh Proverbs Alphabetically diſ-
poſed, 3. Clerks Collection before mention-
ed. 4. An Alphabetical Collection by N. R.
Gent, 5, M* Herberts Jacula prudentum.

Io the Reader.

6. 4 Collection of many ſelet# and excellent
Proverbs by Robert Codrington Maſter of
Arts, 7. And laſtly, Parcmi

Ja, Howell Eſquire, Thoſe which I am not
aſſured to be Engliſh Proverbs I have inſer-
ted, yet put in the Italick Character for di-
ſinctians ſake,

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Sentences and 'Phraſts found in the for-
mer. Collections of, Proverbs , the moſt

them not now in common uſe for [ach , ſo far
45 1 know, but borrowed of other Languages,

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Etter to go leu then to fall into the

dich. Han.

2 N The abſent party fat, 5
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follow it. =

When a thing is done advice comes too late.

Though old and wiſe yet ill wife

Its an ill air where nothing is to be gain d.

No Alchymy to ſaving.

Good Ale is meat, drink and cloth.

. Anger dieth quickly with a good man.

He that is Angrj is ſeldome at eaſe,

For that thou canſt do thy ſelf rely not on another.

The wholeſomeſt meat is at anether mans coſt,

None knows the weight of axothers burden.

When you are an Avi hold you ſtill,

When you are a hammer ſtrike your fill.
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Better to die a legger chen ſive a begger,

Proverbial Srntences. |

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Ah is an Ape,a varlet'sa yarlet,
2 they be clad in ſilk or ſcarlet.

Abroken — anew Doctour.

Apothtcaries would pot give pills in ſugar unkeſs
they were bitter. |

Betcer ride on an Aſſe that carries me, then an Aſſe
tharchrows me.

B.
E not a baer if your head be of butter, Hi/pax.
Bri. — 5 not — ovy
and lead, 7 5

There's no great hang urt but ſome fare 1. 1

One Barber: ſhaves not fo cloſe but anotherfinds

work,
On a good bargain think twice. Ira
Rarefooted men rived not tread on thorns,
Baſofwlnifris an enemy to poverty.
Better to be beaten then be in bad company,
Beauty is a bloſſom. ä
Beauty draws more then oxen,
Beauty is no inheritance,
The beg ger is never out of his way.

The begger may ſing before the thief, No more then

the Ege, that old Latine verſe.
Cant abit vacuns corum latrone viator.

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Proverbial Sentences,

Such a beginning ſuch an end,

He that makes his bed ill lies there,

If the bed could tell allit knows it would put many
to the bluſh.

He who lies long in bed his eſtate feels it.

Who looks not before finds. himſelf behind,

Zell; call others to the Church, but enter not in
themſelves,

Be not too haſty to oxth;d another.

Who hath bitter in his mouth ſpits not all ſweet,

The liad mans wife needs no painting, Hiſpar.

He is ina enough who ſees not through the holes
of a ſieve, Hiſpan.

That which doth bloſſom in the Spring will bring
forth fruit in the Autumn.

He that 6/owes in the duſt fills his eyes,

The body is the ſocket of the ſoul,

It's ealie to bow! down hill.

Brabbling curts never want ſore ears.

The brais that ſowes not corn plants thiſtles.

The Aſſe that brajes moſt eats leaſt,

Would you have better bread then is made of
wheat, Jed.

Bread with eyes, and cheeſe without eyes. Hiſpan,

To beg breecher of a bare-arst man.

As I brew ſo I muſt drink.

There is uo deceit in a rm

Building is a ſweet impoveriſhing, T herefore as

Cato well ſaith,
Optimum «ft aliens inſanid frui.
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4 Proverbial Sentences,

The greateſt burdens are not the gainfulleſt, Tl
To buy dear is noc bounty.
Buy at a market, but ſell at home. Hiſpay. Y
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Here is no cake but there is the like of the ſame I Th
make, WI

In a calm ſea every man is a pilot. |
A good candle-holder proves a good gameſter, Th
If chou haſt nota c apon feed on an onyon. Gall, He
The Cat ishungry whena cruſt concents her, It's
The liquouriſh Cat gets many a rap

It's a bad caſe that none dare ſpeak in.

He that chaſtiſeth one amendeth many.

Though the Fox runs the chicken hath wings,
The chicken is the Countreys, but the city eats it.
Wo to the houſe where there is no chiding.

The child ſaich nothing but what he heard at the n

fire, et
To a child all weather is cold. or
When children ſtand quiet they have done ſome Cor
harm. cl
What children hear at home doth ſoon fly abroad. Nie
(bildren are poor mens riches, b

are certain cares, but uncertain comforts, N co:
when they are little make parents fools, } m

, when great, mad. dr
So we get the chink we'll bear with the ſtink. eep
A light Chriſtmas a heavy ſheal. ou!

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Proverbial Semences. 9

The ebolerick drinks, che melancholick cats, the
Flegmatick ſleeps.

Who never ci mb d never fell.

After clouds comes clear weather.

Give a clown your finger and he will take your
whole hand.

Coblers and tinkers are the beſt ale drinkers.

ne The Cock crowes, but the hen goes.

When you ride a young colt ſee your ſaddle be well
girt.

The comforters head never akes.

He commands enough that obeys a wiſe man. Ital.

It's good to have company in trouble.

Solamen miſeris ſocio habniſſe doloris.

Keep good men company, and you ſhall be of the
number,

( onfeſſion of a fault makes half amends for it.

He chat contemplates bath a day without a night.

He may well be contented who needs neither borrow

nor flatter.

e that converſeth not with men knoweth nothing.

orx in good years is hay, in ill years ſtraw is corn.

urn is cleanſed with the wind and the ſoul with

chaſtning.

I. Ne covers me with his wings and bites me with his

bill,

coverons man is like a dog in a wheel that roaſteth

mear for others, wy

dry cough is the trumpeter of death,

eep — thy ſelf firſt.

ounſels in wine ſeldom proſper.

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He that will not be connſeli d cannot be helpꝰt.

Courteſie on one ſide doth never laſt long.

Courts have no Almanacks,

Craft bringeth nothing home.

To acrazy ſhip all winds are contrary,

Credit loſt is like a Venice glaſs broke,

He that hath loſt his credit is dead tothe world,

No man ever loſt his credit but he who had it not.

Crooked logs make ſtreight fires.

Croſſes are ladders that do lead to heaven, (them,

Carrion crow bewail the dead ſheep and then eat

Creelii is atyrant that's always attended with fear,

Who is a c#ckold and conceals it carries coals in his
boſom. Hv. .

Let every excko/d wear his own horns,

In rain and Sunſhine cc go to heaven,

Acnt-purſe is a ſure trade, for he hath ready mo-

ney when his work is done,

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Yo dance in a net and think no body ſees you.
When all is gone and nothing left,

W hat avails the Daogey withthe Dudgeon heft?
The danger paſt and God forgotten.
No day — without ſome grief.
It is never a bad day that hath a good night,
Deaf men go away with the injury.
It's wicked thing to make a dearth on's garner.
Death keeps no Kalender. VE

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Men fear death as children to go in the dark, _,
Better to go to bed ſupperleſs then to riſe in debt.
Hiſpan. | |
Deeds are fruits, words are but leaves.
Deeds are males, and words are females,.._
Deſires are nouriſhed by dear. | |
He looſeth his thanks who promiſeth and delayet h.
Gratia ab officio, quod mora t ardat, abeſt.
A man may looſe his goods for want of demanding
them.
Optima nomina non appellando fiunt mala.
Firſt deſerve and then deſire, |
Deſert and reward ſeldom keep company.
Diſcreet women have neither eyes nor ears.
Sweet ds/coxrſe makes ſhort days and nights.
Diſeaſes are the intereſts of pleaſutes.
All her diſves are chafing diſhes.
The Divel is not always at one door.
It's an ill battel where the Dive carries the colours.
Diverſity of bumours breedeth tumors.
A man may cauſe his own dog to bite him.
The Dog who hunts fouleſt birs at moſt faults,
When a Dog is drowning every one offers him
water,
Dogs 1 — tails not ſo much in love to you as to
your bread. Hiſpan.
gnaw bones becauſe they cannot ſwallow

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Do what thou oughteſt, and come what can. Gall.
A noble houſe-keeper needs no door.

Do as the Frier ſaith not as he doeth, Hiſpan,

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A great dowry is a bed full of brabbles. Hiſpan.

Fine dre ſſing is a foul houſe ſwept before the win-

dows.
He was hang d that left his drink behind.
Better belly burſt then good drink loſt.
Wbo loſeth bis de getteth no thanks.

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VV ears and a ſhort tongue.

Think of eaſe, but work on.

That which is eaſy done is ſoon believed.

Who eats his dinner alone muſt ſaddle his horſe a-
lone. Hiſpan.

You cannot hide an Eel in a ſack.

Good to begin well, better to end well.

In the end things will mend.

He that end ureth is not overcome.

No man better knows what good isthen he who
hathendured evil.

Eavy never entiched any man.

Of evil grain no good ſeed can come.

Bear with evi and expect good.

Evil gotten evil ſpent.

That which is evi is ſoon learn'c,

Evil that cometh out of thy mouth flieth into thy
boſom.

Better to have one cye then be blind altogether.

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Ho hath a fair wife needs more thentwo
eyes.
Fair is not fair, but that which pleaſeth. This 5s
an Italian Prov. Non & bello quelch*e bello
ma e bello "— piace.
A fair woman and a ſlaſh'c gown find alway ſome
nail in the way. |
One may ſooner fall then riſe.
Fall not out with a friend for a trifle,
A fat houſe-keeper makes lean executors,
Every one baſtech the far hog, while the lean
one burneth,
Teach your father to get children.
Such a fat her ſuch a ſon.
The fauliy ſtands on his guard,
Better paſs a danger once then be always in fra. It.
o | Reckon right and February hath thirty one days.
He that hach a fe/low-ruley hath an over⸗ruler.
Fidler: fare, meat, drink and money.
Take beed you find not that you do not ſeek, Ital.
Well may he ſmell of fire whoſe gown burneth,
The firf diſh pleaſeth all.
I'll not make fi of one and fleſh of another.
7 The ſiſb follow the bait.
In the deepeſt water is the beſt fiſhing.
Ne that is ſuffer'd to do more then is fitting will do
more then is lawful.
No man can flay a ſtone.
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One flower makes no garland.
None is a fool always, every one ſometimes.
A fool is fulſome.
A fool demands much, but he is a greater fool that
gives it, (Gall.
If all fools ware bables fewel would be dear. Hyſp,
Fool: tie knots and wiſe men looſe them.
If fools went not to market bad ware would not be
fold. Hiſpan.
One fool makes an hundred.
If you play with a fon at home he'll play with you
in the marker. .
Better a bare fat then no foot at all.
Forgiveany ſooner then thy ſelf. Gall. Ital.
The foremoſt dog catcheth the hare,
The perſwaſion ofthe fortunate ſwayes the doubtful,
When Fortane ſmiles on thee take the advantage,
He who hath no ill fort ane is cloy d with good.
Ne that will deceive the Fox muſt riſe betimes.
Foxes when ſleeping have nothing fall into their
mouths. This is French Prov. A Regnard
endormi rien ne cheut en la gueule.
Foxes when they cannot reach the grapes ſay they
are not ripe.
The beſt mirrour is an old — Gall. Hiſpan.
Life without a friend is with a witneſs, -
Make not thy fritad too cheap to thee , nor thy
ſelf to thy friend,
W hen a friend asketh there is no tomorrow, Hiſp.
Atrue friend ſhould be like à privy, open in ne-
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A friend is not ſo ſoon gotten as loſt. | \

Have but few friends though much acquaintance.
Intime of proſperity friends will, be plenty.
Intime of adverſity not one among twenty.

A treeis known by the frair, and not by the leaves.

The further we gothe furcher behind,
G.
V Ho would be a Gentleman let him ſtorm a
town.

It's not the gay coat makes the Gentleman.

He giveth twice that gives ina trice.

Giving is dead now a days, and reſtoring very ſick.

Who gives thee a capon give him pom and the
wing. Hp.

To give and keep there is need of wit.

A man of gladueſa ſeldom falls into madneſs,

Who hath gla/s-windows of his own muſt take heed
how he ſtones at his houſe, (el.

What pw glaſs tells you will — be told by coun-

Do not o but gaw, i. e. go ty /elf along.

God — him of bread os — his drink.

God healeth, and the Phyſician hath the thanks.

Get thy ſpindle and thy diſtaff ready and God will
ſend thee flax. |

God cometh with leaden feet, but ſtriketh with iron
hands,

God comes at laſt when we think he is furtheſt off. x.

Godhath okena great ſhare ina le boule, Gal.

12 Proverbial Sentences.
God, our parents and our maſter can never be requi-
ted. Gall.
No lock will hold againſt the power of gold. Hiſp.
You may ſpeak with your geld and make other
tongues dumb, 7ral.
When we have geld we are in fear, when we have
none weare in danger,
A good _ is ſoon ſnatch'c up.
An handful of good life is better then a buſhel of
learning. 5
One never looſeth by doing good turns.
Goodand quickly ſeldom meer.
Goods are theirs who enjoy them.
Goſſips and frogs they drink and talk.
The greateſt ſtrokes make not the beſt muſick,
There could be no great ones if there were no little.
He that gropes in the dark finds that he would not.
Many things grow in the garden were never ſown
there, Hiſpan.
The grounſel ſpeaks not ſave what it heard of the

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He wiſe hand doth not all the fooliſh tongue
ſpeaketh.
Happy man, happy dole. |
Happy is he who knows his follies in his youth.
The herd gives no more then he that hath nothing.
Things hardly attain'dare long retained,

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Proverblat Semences, 13

He who would have a bare to breakfaſt muſt hunt
over night. (dent,

Good — make men prodigal, bad ones provi

He that hath a good harveſt may be content with
ſome thiſtles.

is ſafe riding in a good haven.

The firſt point of ha bing is bold faſt.

The gentle hawk. mans her elf,

When the head aketh all the body is the wotſe.

One is not ſo ſoon healed as hurt. {

What the heart thinketh the tongue ſpeaketh.

Who ſpits againſt heaves it falls in his face. Hiſpan.

Hel is full of good meanings and wiſhes,

The high. way is never about.

The higheſt tree hath the greateſt fall. T

Look high and fall into a cowturd. |

Every man is beſt known to himſelf.

Better my hog dirty home then no hog atall.

Dry bread at home is better then roaſtmeat abroad.

He is wiſe that is honeſt. (Ital,

A man never ſurfets of roo much þb;efty.

Lick boney with your little finger.

He that licks honey from thorns pays too dear for it.
Thu is a French Proverb. Trop achepte le miel

quiſur eſpines le leche.

Honey is ſweet but the Bee ſtings,

Henbm and eaſe are ſeldom bedfellows.

Who lives by hope dies breaking of wind back»
wards. tal.

He that lives in hoge danceth without a minſtrel.

Hiſpan.

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T4 Proverbial Semtences.

The — thinks one thing and he that rides him a-.
nother.

Lend thy horſe for a long journey, thou mayeſt have
him return wich his skin.

All things are ſoon prepar'd in a well ordered houſe.

The foot on the cradle and hand on the diſtafſisthe
ſign of a good bonſewife, Hiſpan

An hamble-bee in a cowturd thinks ' hinaſelf a King.

An hungry man anangry man, *

Huſbands are in heaven whoſe wives chide not.

IL.
Dleneſs turns the ed — of —
— is the key
not with the eye nor Aach — Hiſpas.
The trueſt je. ſound worſt in guilty ears.
Better be 5// ſpoken of by one before all, * by all
before one.
An ill ſtake ſtandeth lon

gelt.
There were no il language if it were not ill taken.
The beſt remedy againſt an il man is much ground

between both. Hiſpas.

—_———— — hand, and frugality her

n that goes to a good Ian.
We mf nolook for god in an iron age.
An iteh is worſe then a

Fch and eaſe can no man pleaſe.

Where-

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a-
K.
Hereſoever you ſee your kindred make
Q W. much of your friends

A knotty piece of timber muſt have ſmooth wedges.

Many do / the hands they wiſh to ſee cut off. Hi/.

He that eats the X'ingz gooſe ſhall be choked wich
the feathers.

L,

H: that labour and thrives ſpins gold.
The lame goeth as far as the ſtaggerer.
The {aft ſuitour wins the maid.
1 pound of La there's not an ounce
of love
11 | The Zaw is not the ſame at morning and night,
| The worſt of Lew is that one ſuit breeds twenty.

A ſuit of L and an urinal bring a man tothe hoſ-
pital. Hi/pas. 5
A good Lawyer an evil neighbour.
r He Iangbs ill chat bimſelf to death.
Let your /etter ſtay for the Poſt, not the poſt for
5 the letter. Ital.
A Bean in liberty is betterthen a comfit in priſon.
Every light is not the Sun.
Like Author like book.
Li to like, and Nan for Nicholas. - 2
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26 Proverbial Sentences,

Love rules his kingdom without a ſword.

The Lion skin is never cheap.

A liguoriſb. tongue a lecherous tail.

A l.ttle body doth often harbour a great ſoul.

The {tle cannot be great unleſs he devour many.

Litile ſticks kindle the fire, but great ones put ĩt out

Litile dogs ſtart the hare but the great ones catch

That irie which is good fills the trencher.

He l iveth long that hveth well.

Life is half ſpent ere we know what it is.

He that ſiveth wickedly can hardly die honeſtly.

He that /ives not well one year, ſorrows for it ſevet

It's not how * but how well we hve,

Who lives well ſees afar off, Hiſpan.

The life of man is a winters day and a winters way,

He /oofeth nothing who keeps God for his friend.

He hath not /oſt all who hath onethrow to.caſt.G

London Bridge was made for wiſe men to paſs over
and for foolsto paſs under,

Love lives in Cottages as well as in Courts.

o =

Love being jealous makes a good eye look aſquit
Loveasks faich, and Faith asks firmneſs, Ital.
They love too much that die for love.
They who /ove moſt art leaſt ſer by.
Where love fails we eſpy all faults.

A low hedge is eaſily leapt over,

| M.

Maid that giveth yieldetn.
maid that laughs is half taken.

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Proverb;al. Sentences, 17
A waid oft ſeen, a gown oft worn
Are diſeſteem'd and held in ſcorn,

Manners make often fortunes.

When many ſtrike on an anvil they muſt ſtrike by
meaſure.

Many ventures make a full fraight.

Many without puniſhment, none without ſin,

Many ſpeak much that cannot ſpeak well.

The March Sun cauſeth duſt, and the wind blows
it abour.

When the mare bath a bald face, the filly will have a
blaze.

The marker is the beſt garden. At London they art
wont to ſay, Cheapſide is the beſt garden.

The married man muſt turn his ſtaff into a ſake.

Before thou marry, be ſure of a houſe wherein to
carry. Hiſpas. Ital.

Aoneſt men marry ſoon , wiſe men not at all. Ital.

He who mgrrieth tor wealth doth ſell his liberty.

Who marrieth for love without money hath good
nights and ſorry days. Ital. Hiſpan.

Oneeye of the maſters ſees more ten of the
ſervants, Jtal.

Th _ maſtiffe be gentle, yet bite him not
by the lip.

Uſe the — and God will give the bleſſing.

Meaſure thrice what thou buyeſt, and cut it but
once. /tal.

Meaſ ure is a merry mean.

He is not a merchant bare, that hath money worth

Or ware,

18 Provifbial Semences.

Good tobe meyryat meat. |

Metal is dangerous ina blind horſe.

Mills and wives are ever wanting.

The mill cannot grind with the water that is paſt.
The abundance of money ruines youth.

The skilfulleſt wanting money is ſcorn'd,

Ready money will away.

Money is that Art hath turn'd up trump,

Meney is welcome though it come in a ſh------clout.
The morning Sun never laſts aday,

The good mother faith not will you, but "om
You muſtnot let your monſe-trap ſmell of cheeſe.
HMnfich helps not the tooth-ach. |
The Mußcias keeps his ſhop in his throat. Hiſpes.

N.

Ne nail drives out another, Gall. Un clou
pouſſe l'autre.
A good name keeps its luſtre in the dark.
He who but once a good wame gets,
May piſs a bedand fay he ſwears, -
The evil wound is cured, but not the evil name.
Nature draws more then ten oxen,

Who periſheth in needleſs danger is the Devils
r

New meat begetsa new appetite.
W hen thy »e:ghbowrs bouſe doth burn, be careful
of thine own. |
Tua res agitar paries cum proximns ardis.

Proverbial. Semtences; 19

He that runs in the night ſtumbles.

The nightingale and the cuckow ſing both in one
moneth.

The more zoble,the more humble.

Cold weather and knaves come out of the North.

Three ills come from the North, a cold wind, a
ſhrinking cloth, and a diſſembling man,

Nothing down, nothing up,

Nothing have, nothing crave,

By doing ust ling we learn to do ill. Nihil Agende
malt agere diſcimiu.

It's more painful to do »erhing then ſomething.

He that hath not hing is not contented.

The Nurſes tongue is priviledged to talk.

O.

Th offender never pardons, N

The off-/pring of them that are very old or ve»
ry young laſteth not.

It's ill healing an eld ſore,

He wrongs not an od man, who ſteals his ſupper
from him. Hiſpas,

If the ola dog barkes, he gives counſel,

Old mares luſt after — —

Old friends and old wine are beſt. Gall and old

Old — when they ſcorn young, make much of

When Bees are they yield no honey.
The eld mans ſtafſ is the rapper at Deaths Ger
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20 Proverbiad. $entences;

An old knave is no babe.

W hereo/dage is evil, youth can learn no good.

When an old man will not drink, go to ſee him in a-
nother world. ral.

He who hath but ove hog makes him fat, and he who
hath but one ſon makes him a fool.

One ſhrewd turn asks another.

One {lumber invites another.

All feet tread not in one ſhoe.

If every one would mend one, all would be amended.

One and none is all one. Hz/pan.

Onedoth the ſcathe, and another hath the ſcorn, /

There came nothing out of the ſack but what was
in it,

It's a rank courteſie when a man is forc't to give
thanks for his oN.

The ſmoke of a mans ows houſe is better then the
fire of anothers. Hiſpan.

Where ſhall the Ox 2 — he muſt labour.

Take heed of an Ox before, an Aſſe behind, and 2
Monk on all ſides, Hiſpan.

P.

Mie can pacł the cards that cannot uk
Let no womans painting breed thy Romachs

On painting — fighting look aloof off, .
He that will enter into po" muſt have 2
good key,
Say

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' Proverbial | Sentences.

Say no ill of the year tiltic be pap.

— path — puddle. by

Patchand long ſlit, build and ſoon flit.

Patience is a flower grows not in every ones garden.

Herein 1s an alluſion to the name of Plant ſo called,
i. e. Rhabarbarum Monachorum.

He who hath much peaſe may put the more in
the pot. dN

Let every pedley carry his — burden.

There's no companion like the . Hi

He that takes — a pin Neights his — 2

He that pitieth another remembreth himſelf. Hiſp.

Pla, women and wine undo men laughing.

Noble plants ſuit not a ſtubborn foil

Fly pleaſure and it will follow thee.

Never ple ſure without repentance. ä

The pleaſares of the mighty are the tears of the poor.

If your plow be jogging you may have meat for
your horſes. ;

Poor men have no ſouls, b

There are none poor but ſuch as God hates.

The Devil wipes his tail with the poor maus pride.

Povergy parteth friends Cor fellowſhip. }

Poverty is the mother of health, |

True praiſe takes root and ſpreads,

Neither praiſe nor diſpraiſe thy ſelf, thine actions

ſerve the turn.

He that will not be ſaved needs no preacher.

Prettineſs dies quickly, |

W hodraws his ſword againſt his Princt, muſt throw
away the ſcabbard,

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23 Proverblal Sentences,

—— IA a Ann

EY g and performing a man may mar-
hter. Gall.

ne) promi ſeth like a merchant, and pays like a man
of war,

Topromiſe and give —.— isa comfort to a fool.

He is proper that hath proper conditions.

Providence is better then rent.

He hath left his purſe in his other boſe,

A full parſe makes the mouth to ſpeak.

An empty purſe fills the face with wrinckles.

R.

T*s poſſible for a raw to kill a butcher.
The rath ſower nere borrows o'ch* late.

A man without reaſon-is a beaſt in ſeaſon,

Take heed of enemies reconcii'd , and of meat
twice boil'd. Hiſpas.

A good Recorder ſets all inorder.

Remove an old tree, and it will wither to Jeath;"

When all is conſum d ,R-pent ance comes too late.

He may freely receive courteſies that knows how to

ite them.

God belp the rich, the poor can beg.

Riches are but the ba age of Fortune. |

When riches increa For

22 men grow old before they grow rich.

Riches muek which ſtink in a beap, but

ſpread abroad. make the earth froieful. 2
3

18

Proverbial Sentences. 23
ſt's eaſie to rob an Orchard, ven none keeps it.
A rugged tone grows ſmooth from hand to hand.
Better to rule then be ruled by the rout.

The ruſty ſword and empty purſe plead perfor-
mance of covenants. FA

8.

T's a bad ſack will abide no clouting.
When it pleaſeth not God, the Faint can do
little. Hiſp. . 1
$almon and Sermon ha ve their ſeaſon in Lent. Gal.
A Scepter is one thing, a ladle another. |
You pay more for your /cheeling,then your learn-
ing is, worth, aol
Who —_— Linder * men. 92 75 com-
moni rrows 4 c one, 4 [word of another,
a TE of boots of a "> 4 hat of 4 Fabry wh
Who hath a ſcold hath ſorrow to his ſops, _ .
Being on the Sea ſail, being on the land ſettle, « 4;
They complain wrongfully on the Sea, who, twice
ſuffer ſhipwrack, ba hy
Every thing is good in its ſeaſos. ure.
Would you know ſecreti, ook them in grief ox plea-
He who ſeeketh trouble never miſſeth it.
A man muſt {eff his ware after the rates of. I market,
He who ſerves well, needs not be afraid tg. ask his

wages.
The groat is ill ſaved that awe: the maſter.
Isa fooliſh fzcep that ma kes the wolf his .
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Ships fear fire more then water. .

A great ſbip doth ask deep waters.

The chamber of ſickxeſ7 is the chappel of devotion,

Silence doch ſeldom harm.

Silence is the beſt ornament of a woman,

Silks and Sattins put out the fire inthe kitchin.

He that , g- on Friday ſhall weep on Sunday.

The ſinging- man — his ſhop in his throat.

Sit in your place and none can mak& you riſe,

Slander leaves a ſcore behind it. Calummi are for-
titty aliqaid adberebit. | -

Sloth tur neth the edge of wit,

Better the laſt ſmile then the firſt laughter.

A ſmiling boy ſeldom proves a good ſervant.

The Smith and his penny are both black.

Whether you do boil ſu or pound it, you can have
but water of it, |

Sorrow is good for nothing but fin,

When ſorrow is aſleep wake it not.

Souldieys in peace are like chimneys in ſummer.

Who ſow: his corn in the field truſts in Gd.

He that /peaks me fair and loves me not, 1'l! ſpeak
him fair and cruſt him not.

He that /peaks doth ſow, he that holds his peace doth
reap. Ital.

Speech is the picture of the mind.

Spend and be free, but make no waſte,

To 5 Spender God is the treaſurer.

The Jews us at Ealter, the Moors at marriages,
and the Chriſtians in ſuits of Law. Il.

bo more then be is worth doch fend, be makes
a rope his life to end. * Who

ho /pends more then he ſhould ſhall not have to
ſpend when he would. | 2

n. Who hath. /pice enough may ſca ſon his meat as be

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pleaſeth.

It's a poor port that is not worth the candle.

The beſt ot the ſport is to do the deed and ſay nothing

That which will not be ſyun, igt it not come between
the ſpindle and che diſtafl.

They fea! che hog and give away the feet in alms.
Hi ſpan.

Steg che gooſe and give the — in ams.

—— ſtep the ladder is aſcended. |

Who hath none to ffi// him, may weep out his eyes.

The ftileft and humours are always the worſt, _ |

Who remove foxes, bruiſe their fingers. |

Who hath skirts of fraw, needs fear the fire. Hiſp.

Stretch your legs according to your coverlet.

It's o be ffang by a nettle, then prick't by
a roſe.

I /#ck'*t not this out of my fingers ends.

Though the Jun ſhines, leave not your cloak at
home. Hiſpas.

In every — Fus riſeth in the morning.

He deſerves not the ſovcet that will not taſte of the
ſowre. , |
y
e table robs more then the thief.

alk mh and h (ſaith the Spas,
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56 Freverbial Sentences,

T alking pays no toll.

They tall of Chriſtmas ſolong, that it comes.

The taſt of the kitchin is better then the ſmell. -

To him that hath loſt his raf, ſweet is ſowre.

Who hathaking teeth bath ill tenants.

Teil a tale to a mare, and ſhe'll let a fart.

A thin meadowis ſoon mow'd. (

The thor» comes forth with his point forwards,

The thought hath good legs, and the quill a good
tongue, Ital.

A thouſand pounds and a bottle of hay, is alſ one
thing at Dooms day.

There are more threatned then ſtruck.

He who dies of ehreats, muſt be rung to Church
by farts,

He that is chrown would ever wreſtle.

When it chwngders,the thief becomes honeſt. :

Theride willferch away what the ebb brings.

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Every one puts his fault on the times.

Soon todd ſoon with God. 4 Northern Proverb,

when 4 child hath teeth too ſoon.
Along tongue is a hn of a ſhort hand,
Better that the feet ſlip then the tongue.
GE ſtrikes with his rongoe, muſt ward with his

The tongue not ſteel, yet it cuts.
The tongue breaketh bone, — it ſelf have none.
The tongue talks at the heads colt.

Too much breaks the bag. Hiſp-
Too — — talking pag

Proverbial Sentences, 25

Trade is the mother of money,

When the tree is faln, every man goeth to it with
his hatchet. Gall.

Truth and oyl are ever above. Hiſpas.

Truth hath a good face, but bad —

if things were to be done ewice,all would be wiſe.

Hiſpan.

U,

O cut to wnkindneſs,

Unknown unkiſt.

Unminded unmon'd.

Underwater, famine, under ſnow, bread,

Valour that parlies,is near ielding.

Valowy can * — diſcretion.

That's not good that all nder ſf and not.
Where men are well aſea, they'll frequent there.

W.

E that waits on another mans ning; makes

many a late dinner,

For want of a nail the ſhoe is loſt, for want of a
ſhoe the horſe is loſt, for want of a horſe the
rider is loſt,

War is deaths feaſt,

Who preacheth war is the Devils chaplain. -

War nakesthieres,and peace hangs them. Gall Ie.

War,

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28 Provenbial ' Sentences,

War, hunting and Law, are as full of trouble
pleaſure. | |

He that makesa good war, makes a good peace,

He is wiſe enough that can keep himſelf arm.

Good watch prevents misfortune,

He that hath a head of wax, muſt not walk in

the Sun,

Where it is weakeſt there the thread breaketh.

Wealth's like rheum, it falls on the weakeſt parts,

The greateſt we, is contentment with a little.

The gown's hers that wears it, and the world's his
who enjoys it. .

_ of weather is the diſcourſe of fools. Hiſp.

Expect not fair weathey in winter on one nights ice.

He that goeth out with often loſs,
At laſt comes home by weeping croſs.
Weight and meaſure take away trite.
He that doth wel wearieth not bimſelf.
Well to work and make a fire,
It doth care and skill require,

Such a welcome ſucha farewel.

Welcome death, quoth the Rat, when the trap fell
down.

As welcome as flowers in May.

I wept hen I was born, and every day ſhews why.

Whores aſſect not you but your money,

E boring and bawdery do often end in beggery.

A mans beſt fortune or his worſt is a wife.

He that lets his wife go to every feaſt,and his horſe
drink at every water, ſhall neicher have good
wife nor good horſe. Ital.

oy wife

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Proverblal Sentences, 29

Wife and children are bills of charges.
be cunning wife makes her bus ber apron,

Hiſpas.

fe wife is the key of the houſe,

his

ll

Bo >?

Ne that hath wife and children wants not buſineſs.

Where the #3// is ready, the feet are light,

To him that wills, ways are not wanting, |

Wich as good a will as ever Icame from ſchool,

He — doth what he wil, oft doth not what he
ought, \

will will have wilt, though will woe win:

Nothing is impoſlible to a willing mind.

Willows are weak, yet they bind other wood, 7tad.

Pull down your hat on the wind (ide,

A good Winter brings a good Summer. !

Wine is the maſters, but the goodneſs is the
drawers, /

Wine inthe bottle doth not quench the thirſt, I.

Mine is a turn- coat, firſtafriend, then an enemy.

wine that coſts nothing is digeſted e're it be
drunk.

You cannot know wine by the barrel,

Wine wears no breeches. Gall, 1. e. Shews what
4 man i.

You cant drive a wizdmill with a pair of bellows.

You may be a Wi/e man though you can't: make
a watch,

Wiſe men care not for what they cannot have.

Noneis ſo wiſe but the fool overtakes him,

Better tꝭẽ have then /b.

Better it be done then wiſh it had been done. 1

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30 Proverbidt Sentences.

It's wit to pick a lock and ſteal a horſe, but

dom to let them alone. "Wh

You have à little wit and it doth you goe
ſomerimes.

He hath enough to keep the wolf from
door. That 17, to ſatisfie his hunger, latra
ftomachum,

Wolves loſe their teeth, but not their memory,

Who hath a wolf for his mate, needs a dog fe
his man. Ital.

Who keeps company with the wolf, will learn t

nen, prieſts and poultry have never enoug
Ital, ,

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Io wo is a pleaſure in a young man, a fault inf

an old.
Green wood makes a hot fire,
Wood half burnt iscafily kindled.
You were better give the wool! then the

Many word will not fill a buſhel,

Ford: are but ſands , it's money buys lands,
Words and - feathers are fol by the win

— —

word: without deeds are ruſhes and reeds] .....
One ill word asketh another,

_ hunger in froſt, that will not work it

What is a workyran without his tools.
There needs a long time to know the
pulſe bo 2

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He more thy years, the nearer thy grave.
Towth and ale paper take any —

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Proverbs and Proverbial Obſervations
belonging to Health, Diet and Phyſict.

I, AN Ague in the Spring is Phyſick for a
King.

x Tharis if it comes off well. For an Ague is nothing elle
bur a ſtrong fermentation of the bloud ; Now as in the
fermentation of other liquors there is for the moſt
part a ſeparation made of that which is heterogeneous and
unſociable whereby the liquor becomes more pure and defz-
cate, ſo is it alſo with the bloud which by fermentation
(eaſily excited at this time by the return of the Sun) doth
purge it ſelf, and caſt off thoſe impure hererogeneov yn
cles which it had contracted in the winter time. And that
theſe may be carried away, after every pargicular termentati-
on or paroxyſm, and not _= taken up by the bloud, it is
neceſſary or at leaſt very uſetul to ſwear in bed after every fit,
And an Ague-kit — off kindly, unleſs it
ends in a ſweat, Moreover at the end of the diſeaſe ir is con-
venient to purge the body, to carry away thoſe more groſs
and feculent parts which haye been ſeparated by the ſeyeral
fermentations, and could not ſo eafily be ay by ſwear,
or that ſtill remain in the bloud though not ſufficient to cauſe
a paroxyſm. And that all perſons eſpecially choſe of years
may be leſſoned that they . not to purge their bodies
aſter the getting rid of agues, I ſhall add a very material and

_ = tion 93 — * 5 — 2
Aurumnal fea vert
— l eim diftu quanta —— 1

purgationis defetu poſt febres Amtumnales ſubmaſcatur. © Mk
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belonging 10 Health, &. 33
ror atem hoc 2 medicis mint caveri, minus etiam admomeri .
Bruandocunque enim morborum alterutrum Febrem terti-
anam ant quartanam) pauld proveftiorts ætatit hominibus ac-
cidiſſe vidi atque p'1gationem etiam omiſſam; certi pradicere
potui periculoſum aliquem mo- hum eoſdem poſſes adoriturum,
de quo tamen i li nondum ſommiateraut, quaſs perfette jam
ſanatt. |

2, Abit inthe morning is better then nothing
all day,
3. Or then a thump on the back with a Kone.

> 4+. Youeat and eat, but you do not drink to

fill you.

4. That much drinking takes off the edge of the Appe-
tite to meat, we ſee by experience in great dtinkets, who
for the moſt part do (as we (ay:) but pingle at their meat
and eat little, Hippocrates obſerved of old, that nuyor d-
enZis av; A good beany draught takes away hunger after
long faſting ſooner by far then eating would do. The rea-
ſon w [ conceive is, becauſe that acid humour which by
yellicaring rhe membranes of the ſtomack caufes a ſence
of hunger, is by copious ingeſtion of drink very much dilu-
ted, and its acidity ſoon taken off,

5. An apple, an egg anda nut, you may eat af-
rera Aut.
5 Poma, ova atque muces, fi det tibi ſordida,guſtes.

6. Children and chicken mult be always picking.

6 That is, they muſt eat oſten, bur little ar a time.
Oken, becauſe the body growing requires much addition
of food z little at a time, tor fear of opprefling and extin-
puſhing the natural heat. A little oyl nouriſhes the Bame,

te great deal poured on at once may drown and
it. A man may carry that by little and little, which if laid
en his back gt once he 3 ——

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34 Proverbial Obſervations
who in —_—_—_— alſo, I mean by reaſon of the decay of

their ſpirits and natural heat, do again become children, are
adviſed by Phyſicians to eat often, but little at once,

7. Old young and old long,

7 Divieni toſto vecchio ſe-ynoi vivere lungamente vec-
chio, Ital. Mature figs ſemex fi diu ſenex eſſe velis, This
is alledged as a Proverb by Cicero in his book de ſeneſt u-
te, For as the body is preſerved in health by moderate labour
or exerciſe, ſo by violent and immoderate it is impaired
and worn our, And as a great exceſs of any quality or ex-
ternal violence doth ſuddenly deſtroy the body, ſo a leſſer
exceſs doth weaken and parrially deſtroy ir, by rendring it
leſs laſting,

g. They who would be young when they are old
muſt be old when they are young.
g. When the Fern is as high as a ſpoon
You may ſleep an hour at noon,

9 The cuſtom of fleeping after dinner in the ſummer
time is now grown-general in Italy and other hot Coun»
rreys, ſo that from one to three or four of the Clock in
the afternoon you ſhall ſcarce ſee any one ſtirring abour the
ſtreets of their cities, Schola Salereitana condemns this
practiſe, Su brevis ant nulla tibi ſommus me idianus :
Febris, pigrities , capitis dolor atque Catarrbas, Hac tibi
proveniunt ex ſomno meridiano, Bur it may be this advice
was intended for us Engliſh (to whoſe King this book was
dedicated) rather then the Italians or other inhabitants of
hot Countreys, who in the Summer would have to
do to keep themſelves waking after dinner. The beſt way
at leaſt for us in colder climats is altogethet to abſtain from
lleeps bur if we mult nceds fleep, (as the Italian Phyſicians
adviſe) either ro take a nod fitting in a chair, or if we
lie down ſtrip off out clothes as at night, and go into bed, as the
preſent Duke of Tuſcany himſelf praiſes and * his ſub»
jets to do but by no means lie down upon a bed in our clothes,

10. When

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belonging to Health, &c, 35
10. When the Fern is as high as a ladle,

You may ſleep as long as you are able.
11, When Fern begins to look red
Then milk is good with brown bread,

11, It is obſerved by good houſewiyes, that milk is thicker
in the Autumn then in the Summer , notwithſtanding the
graſs muſt needs be more hearty, the juice of it being better
concocted by the hear of the Sun in Summer time. I conceive
the reaſon to be becauſe the cartel drink water abundantly by
reaſon -_ their heat in Summer , which doth much dilute
their milk.

12. Every man is either a fool or a Phyſician after
thirty years of age.
13. After dinner fic a while, after ſupper walk

a mile.

13. Poſt epulas ſtabis vel paſſus mille meabir, I know no
reaſon for the difference, unleſs one ears a greater dinnet then
ſupper. For when the ſtomach is full it is not good to exer-
cite immediately, but to fit till awhile ; though I do not
allow rhe reaſon uſually given, viz. becauſe exerciſe draws
the heat outward to the exteriour parts, and ſo leaving the
ſtomach and bowels cold, hinders concoction: for I believe
that as well the ſtomach as the exteriour parts ate hoteſt af-
ter exerciſe ¶ And that thoſe who exerciſe moſt, conco& moſt
and require moſt meat. So that exerciſe immediately after
meat is hurrful rather upon account of precipitating concoGi-
on, or turning the meat out of the ſtomach roo ſoon, As for
the reaſon they give for ſtanding or walking after meales, viz.
becauſe the meat by that means is depreſſed to the bottom of
the ſtomach; where che natural heat is moſt yigorous, it is
very frivolous, both the ſtomach is a wide veſſel, and
ſo the bottom of it ot be empty, but what falls into it
muſt needs fall down to the bottom: And becauſe moſt cer ·
tainly the Romach concocts worſt when ic is in a pendulous
poſtuge, as it 0 Hence, =

2

36 Proverbial Obſervations

Lord V-rulam truly obſerves , Gally ſlaves and ſuch W ex-

erciſe ſitting, though they fare meanly and work hard yet
are commonly fat and — Whereupon alſo he com-
mends thoſe works or exerciſes which a man may perform
fitting, as ſawing with a hand-ſaw and the like.

14. Anold Phyſician, a young Lawyer,

14. An old Phyſician becauſe of his experience; a young
Lawyer, becauſe he having but little . will have lei-
ſure enough to attend your buſineſs, and deſiting thereby to
recommend himſelf and get more, will be very diligent in it.

15. A good Chirurgion muſt have an Eagles
eye, a Lions heart, and a Ladies Hand.
16. Good keghs half a meal.
17. If you ot live ever, you muſt waſh
milk from your liver,
Butter is gold in the morning, ſilver at noon,

lead at night.

17. Vin ſur laict © eſt ſouhait, Lai ſur vin c' eſt ye”
nin. Gall, This is an idle old ſaw, for which I can ſee no
reaſon but rather for the contrary,

18, Aftercheeſe comes nothing,
19. Anegg and to bed.
20. You muſt drink as much after an egg as af-
ter an Ox.

* 20, This is no leſs fond and ungrounded then the former.

21, Light ſuppers make clean ſheets,

22. He that goes to bed thirſty riſes healthy. Gall.

22, He that goes to bed thirſty, &c, I look upon this as 8
, 7 perſons

very good obſervation and ſhould adviſe all not to go
to bed with their ſtomachs full of wine, beer or * other
4 If quour.

rns

*
et
1
m

belonging to Health, cc. 37

liquor: For (as the ingenious Doctor Lower obſeryes) no-
thing can be more injurious to the brain, of which he gives
a moſt rational and true account, which take in his own
words. Cie enim propter proclivem corporis ſitum urina d re-
nibus ſecreta no ita facile & prompte uti cum erefti ſumut
in —— per ureteres delabatur. Ciimque veſica cervix er
proclivi ſitu urine pondere non ade) graverur ; atque ſpiriti-
bus per ſommum in cerebrum aggregati- & 1 Vee +
fica oneris cut ſenſum nou itd percipiat, ſed officii quaſi ob-

lits ed copii wink aliquand» diſtenditur , ut majort recipi-
ende ſpatium vis detur; inde fit ut propter impeditum per
rewes &f wreteres urine decur ſum, in totum corpus regurgiter,
& wifi diarrhota proximo mane ſuccedat, aut noſt ur no [udore
cvacuetur in —— deponi debet. Tract. de Corde cap, 2.

pag. 141.

23. One hours ſleep before midnight's worth two
urs after.
24. Who goes tobed ſupperleſs, all night tumbles
and toſſes.

24. This is aw Italian Proverb. Chi ya à letto ſenza cena
Tutta notte fi dimena, That is, if a man goes to bed hun-
7257 otherwiſe, He that eats a — 1 dinner may well af.
ord to go to bed ſupperleſs, unleſs he hath uſed ſome ſtrong
bodily labour or exerciſe, Certainly it is not good to go to
ones reſt till the ſtomach be well —— that is if we eat
ſuppers, till two hours at leaſt after ſupper, For (as the old

ficians tell us) though the ſecond and third concoctions
be beſt performed in fleep, yet the firſt is rather diſturbed and
perverted. If it be objeRed . that labouring people do not
obſerve ſuch rule, but do both go to bed preſently after ſup-
per, and to work after dinner, yet who more healthful then
—7 I anſwer tliat the caſe is different, for though by ſuch
— ile they do turn their meat out of their ſtomachs before

and perfect concoction, and ſo multiply crude humours
yer they work and ſwear them out again, which ſtudents and
edentary perſons de not, Indeed ſome men who have a
D 3 ſpeedy

38 Proverbial Obſervations

y concotion and hot bra ins muſt, ro procure ſleep, eat
— at night which may ſend up gentle vapours into
the head, and compoſe the ſpirits,

25. Often and little eating makes a man fat.
— 286. Fiſh muſt ſwim thrice.

| 26. Once in the water, a ſecond time in the ſawce, and a

third time in wine in the ſtomach. Poiſſon ,gorrer & cochin
vie en l eau, & mort en vin. Gall, Fiſh and young ſwine
live in water and die in wine.

27. Drink wine and have the gout, and drink
no wine and have the gout too.

27. With this ſaying, intemperate perſons that have or
fear the gour, encourage themſelves to proceed in drinking
wine notwichſtanding.

28. Young mens knocks old men feel.
28, Boe peccamus Frovencs ea lnimus ſanes.

29. Go to bed with the lamb, and riſe with
the lark.
30. Early to go to bed and early to riſe, makes
a man healthy, wealthy and wiſe,
31. Waſh your hands often, your feet ſeldom,
and your head never. a
32. Eat at pleaſure, drink by meaſure.

32. This is a French Proverb, Pain tant qu il dure, via
I meſure. and they themſelves obſerve ir, For no

eat more bread , nor indeed have better to eat: And
wine the moſt of them drink it well diluted, and never
to exceſs that I could obſerve. The Italians have
e, Pun meme dara ma vin 4 mb

33. The

belowring to Health, Gt. 39
33. The beſt Phyſicians are Dr Diet, D* Quiet
and Dr Merryman.
33. * is nothing but that Diſtich of Schola S alernizans
$i tibi deficiant medici, medici tibi fiamt.
Hae tria mens lata, ede, ata diata.
Drink in the morning ſtaring,
Then all the day be paring.
Feed ſparingly and defie the Phyſician,

34. You ſhould never touch your eye but
with your elbow,

To theſe I ſhall add two or three French
Proverbs,

* chaud le pied & la teſte, Au de-
meurant vivez en beſte. Which M*
Cotgrave engliſhes thus, The head
and feet kept warm, The reſt will

Jeun ch —— Y

36, Jeun chair & vieil poiſſon. 5; e.

fleſhand old fiſh are beſt, 12
37. Qi vin ne boit apres ſalade eſt en danger eſ-
tre malade. i. . He that drinks not wine

after ſalade, is in danger to be ſick.

94

Proverbs

— Ty a Op
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40 Proverbial obſervations

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4.

Proverbs and Proverbial Obſervations

concerning Husbandry, Weather and the Sea-
ſons of the year,

b freez the pot by the fire.

2. If the graſs grow in Janiveer, It grows
the worſe for*c all the year.

2. There s no general rule without ſome exception: for in
the year 1667 the winter was ſo mild, that the paſtures were
very green in January, yet was there ſcarce ever known a more
plentiful crop of hay then the ſummer following.

3. —_— fill dike, Be it black or beit white;
But if it be white, It's the better to like,

3. Pluye de Feburier vaut es gout de fumier, Gall. Snow
brings a double advantage: It not only pteſerves the corn from
the birrerneſs.of: the froſt and cold, but enriches the ground
by reaſon of the nitrous ſalt which it is ſuppoſed to contain. I
have obſeryed the Alps and orher high mountains covered all
the winter with ſnow , ſoon after it is melred to become like a
garden, ſo full of luxuriantplants and variety of flowers, It
is worth the noting. that mountainous plants are for the moſt
part larger then thoſe of the ſame genus which grow in lower
grounds; and that theſe ſnowy mountains afford greater ya»

riety of ſpecies then plain countreys.

4. All the moneths in the year curſe a fair
Februcer.

5. March

[ concerning Husbandry, & c. 41

5. March back ham comes in like a lion, goes
our like a lamb,

6. A buſhel of March duſtis worth a Kings ran»
ſome.

7. March wind and May Sun, make clothes
white and maids dun, |

8. Aprilſhowers bring forth May flowers.

9 When April blows his horn, It's good both
for hay and corn, |

9. That is, hen it thunders in April.

10. April __ three days of March and they
are ill.

11, An April floud carries away the frog and

her brood,
A cold May anda windy, makes a full barn
and a findy.

12. May come ſhe early or come ſhe late ſhe'll

makethe cow to quake,

13. A May floodnever | id good.

14. Look at your corn in May, And you'll come
weeping away: Look at the ſame in
June, And you'll come home in ano-
ther tune,

15. Shear your ſheep in May, And ſhear them
all away.

16. A ſwarmofBees in May, is worth a load of

hay: But a ſwarm in July, is not worth a fly.

17. When the wind's in the Eaſt, It's neither

good for man nor beaſt.

17. The Baſt-wind with us is commonly very W

4> Proverbial Obſeruations

e comes of the Continent, Midland Countreys of the fame
latitude are generally colder then maritime, and Continents
then Iſlands: and it is obſerved in Euglaud that near the
ſea-fide, as in the County of Cormwall, K. the ſnow ſeldom
lies three days.

18, When the wind's in the South, It's in the
rains mouth,
19. No weather's ill, If the wind be till,

20. A hot May makes a fat Church- yard.

21. A green winter makes a fat Church- yard.

21, This Proverb was ſufficiently confured Awno 1667,
in which che winter was yery mild z and yet no mortality or
Epidemical diſcaſe enſued the Summer ot Autumn following,
We haye entertained an opinion, that froſty weather is t
moſt healthful, and the hardeſt winrers the leſt. Bur I can ſee
no reaſon for it, for in the hotteſt countreys of the world, as
Brafdl, &c. Men are longeſt lived, where they know not
what froſt or ſnow means, the ordinary age of man being an
hundred and ten years: and here in Eugland we found by ex-
perience, that the laſt great plague ſucceeded one of the ſharp-
eſt froſty winters that hath lately happened.

22. Winter never rots in the sky.

23. It's pity fair weather ſhould do any harm.
24. Hail brings froſt ich tail.

25. Aſnowyear, a rich year.
26. A winters thunder's a ſummers wonder.
26. Quand il tonne en Mars on peut dire helas, Gal.

27. Drought never bred dearth in — 1 g |

28. Whoſo hath but a mouth,
Eng land ſuffer drought.

lent,

u, is Sew
29. When

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concerning Husbandry, &c, 43
29. When the ſand doth feed the clay,
England wo and well. a-day :
But when the clay doth feed the ſand,
Then it is well with England.
30, The worſe for the rider, the better for the
bider,
30. Bon pais mauyais chemin. Gal, Rich land, bad way.

31. Whenthe Cuckow comes to the bare thorn,
Sell your cow and buy youcorn ;
But when ſhe comes to the full bir,
Sell your corn and buy you ſheep,
32, If the cock moult before the hen,
We ſhall have weather thick and thin:
But if the hen moult before the cock,
We ſhall have weather hard as a block.

31,32. Theſe icks of weather and furure Kc.
Took upon #5 ——— and were =

obſerved would I believe, as often mils as hit.

33. As the days lengthen, ſo the cold ſtrengthens.
34. If chere be a rainbow in the eve, It will rain
and leave: But if there be a rainbow in the
morrow, It will neither lend nor borrow.
35. An evening red and a morning gray, Is a
ſign of a fair day.

3 5.Le roage ſoir & blanc matin Font rejoutr le pelerin. Gall,

| Sera roſſa — — Allegra il pelegrino. hal. A red

everring and a w

te morning rejoyce the pilgrim,

36. David and Chad ſow peaſe good or bad.
36. That is about the beginning of March.

37. Sow

44 Proverbial Obſervations
37. Sow beans i*h* mud, and they'll grow like
wood,
38. Till S: mes bis day be come and gone,
You may have hopes or you may have none
- 39. The pigeon never knoweth wo,
But when ſhe doth a benting go,
40. If the Partridge had the woodcocks thigh,
T* would be the beſt bird that ever did fly,
41. Yule is good on yule even.

41, That is, as I underſtand it, every thiſig in his ſeaſon,
Yule is Chriftmas.

42. A Michaelmaſs rot comes nere ich pot.
43. A nagg with a weamb and a mare with
nean. i. e. none.

44. Behind before, before behind, 4 bhorſe is in
danger to be prick's.

45. You muſt look for graſs on the top of th

oak tree.

45. Becauſe the graſs ſeldom ſprings well before the oak be-
gins to pur forth, as might have been obſeryed the laſt year.

46. A famine in England begins at the horſe.
manger.
46. In tion to the rack : for in dry years when hay is
dear, — corn is — but — = (or indeed a-
ny one grain) is dear, the reſt are ſeldom cheap,

47. Winters thunder and Summers flood,
Never boded Engliſhman good.
48. Butter's once a year in the cows
horn,
49. It

concerning Husbandry, &c,

49. It rains by planets.

49. This the Countrey people uſe when it rains in one
place and not in another; meaning that the ſhowers are
governed by the Planers , which being erratick in their own
lone I motions, cauſe ſuch uncertain wandring of clouds and falls

of rain, Or it rains by Planets, that is, the falls of ſhowers
are as uncertain as the motions of the Planets are imagined

igh, | be.

45

Proverbs

Proverbs and Proverbial obſervations
referring to Love, Wedlock and Women,

th ow me little and love me long.

2. LUHotlove is ſoon cold.

3. Love of lads and fire of chats is ſoon in and
ſoon out. Darbyſh.

3. Chats, i. e, chips.

4. Lads loves a busk of broom, Hot awhile and

ſoon done. (heſb.

q. Love will creep where it cannot go.

6. Love and Lordſhip like no fellowſhip.

6. Amor & ſeignoria non vogliono compagnia, Ital, A-
mour & ſeigneurie ne ſe tindrent jamais compagnie Gall,
The meaning of our Engliſh Proverb is, Lovers and Princes
- , cannor endure rivals or partners. Ommnfſque 41 3
ens com ſortis crit. I he Italian and French , though the ſame

in words, have I think a different ſenſe, vi. Now beme con-
wniunt nec in an ſele morantur Mayeſtas & amor,

J. Love is blind.
8. Lovers live by love, as Larks by leeks.

$8. This is I conceive in derifion of ſuch expreſſions as li-

ving by love. Larks and leeks beginning with the ſame letter
belp d it upto be a Proverb. *

9. Love

referri 19 10 Love, &c, 47
. Love and peaſe-potrage will make their way.
9. Becauſe one breaks the belly, the other the heart.

10. Love comes in at the windows, and goes out
at the doors.
11. Love and a cough cannot be hid.
11, Amor iu ſoſ ſqwe nou celatur, The French and Italians
dd to theſe two the Itch. IL. amour, la teuſſe & la galle ne

* peuvent celer, Gall, Amor la r & la touſſe non 6
XC — naſcondere. Hal. *

ion

12. Fair chieve all where love trucks.
13. Whom we love beſt, to them we can ſay
and leaſt.
14. Old pottage is ſooner heated, then new
made.

and . '+: Old lovers fallen out are ſooner reconciled then new
loves begun, Nay the Comedian ſaith, Amantinm ire amo.
ris redintegratto 1.

15. Age and wedlock bring a man to his
A- nightcap. ä
Gall 16. Wedding and ill wintering, tame both man
— and beaſt.
— 17. Marriages are made in heaven Nozze &
cos magiſtrato dal cielo e deſtinato.
18. Marry in haſte and repent at leiſure. Ital.
19. It's good to marry late or never.
20. Marry your Sons when you will, your

1 hters when you can.
21, Marry your Daughters betimes, leſt they
marry themſelves. | |

22, More

Proverbial obſervations

48

22. More _ to marriage, then four bare leg

ina
23. Like blood, like good,and likeage, make the
happieſt marriage,
23. /Equalem wxorem quare. Tus x7' rxvTYy . Un-
equal marriages ſeldom proye happy. Si qua voles apt? nubert,
wabe pari. Ovid. Intolerabilins mihil oft quim feming
dives, Juvenal.

24. Ne that's needy when he is married, ſhall be
rich when he is buried.

25. Who weds e're he be wiſe, ſhall die e*re he
thrive.

26. It's hard to wive and thrive both in a year,

27. Better be half hang'd then ill wed.

28. He that would an old wife wed, Muſt eat an
apple before he goes to bed.

28, Which by reaſon ot its flatulency is apt to excite luſt,

29. Marriage is honourable, but houſe-keeping's
a ſhrew,

30. We batchelowrs grin , but you married men
laugh till your hearts ake.

31. Marriage and hanging go by deſtiny.

32. It's time to yoke when the cart comes to the
caples, i. e. horſes. Cheſs. ,., », -

32. That is, It's time to marry when the woman woes

the man.

33. Courtingand woing brings dallying &doi
34. Happy is the woing, that is not long i

oing.
35. He

——

He

referring to Love, Ge. 49
35. ou woes a maid muſt come ſeldom in her
t.
36. Bur be that woes a widow muſt woe her day
and night.
37. e that woes a maid muſt fain,lie and flatter :
But he that woes a widow, muſt down with
his breeches and at her.
8. Ne that would the daughter win,
Muſt with the mother firſt begin.
39. A man muſt ask his wife leave to thrive,
40, He that looſeth his wife and fixpence, hath
loſta teſter,
41. There is one good wife in the Countrey, and
every manthinks he hath her,
42. Wives muſt be had, be they good or bad.
43. He that tells his wife news, is but newly
married,
44. A nice wife and a back door, do often make

a rich man =
45. Long-rongued wives go long with bairn,
46. A man of ſtraw , is Worth a woman of

gold.
46. A French Proverb, Un homme de paille vaut une

ſemme d or.

47. A womans tongue wags like a lambs tail.
48. Three women and a gooſe małę a market,
48. This is an Italian one, Tre donne & un occa fan un

mercato.

49. A ſhip and a woman are ever repairing,
E 50. A

50 Proverbial obſervations

50. Aſpanicl, a woman and a walnut tree, (be.
The morethey're beaten the better ſtill they

50, Nux, aſinus, mulicy fimili e,

Hec tria wil rect faciunt fi verbera ceſſaut.
Adducitur à Cognato, off tamen nouum.

51, Women laugh when they can, and weep
when they will.

51. Femme rit quand elle peut & pleure quand elle
veut. Gall,

52, A woman conceals what ſhe knows not.
53. Womenand dogs ſet men together by the

cars,
54. As great pity to ſeea woman weep, as a gooſe
go barefoot.
55. Winter-weather and womens thoughts
change oft.

56. A womans mind and winter-wind change aff,

57. There's no miſchief inthe world done,
But a woman is always one.

58. A Wicked woman and an evil, It three half.
pence worſe then the Devil.

59. The more women look in their glaſſes, the
leſs they look to their houſes,

60. A womans work is never at an end.

61, Change of women makes bald knaves.

62, Every man can tame a ſhrew, but he that
hath her,

63. Better be a ſhrew then a ſheep.

63. For commonly ſhrews are good houſewiyes.
| 64. Better

E.

referring to Love, Gr. 51
64. Better one houſe fill d then two ſpilbd.

64. This we uſe when we bear of a bad Jack who hath mar-
ried as bada Jyll. For as it is ſaid of Bonww, qud communins
ed meliu;, So by the rule of conttaties, What is ill, the further it
ſpreads the worſe. And as in a city ir is better there ſhould be one
Lazaretta and that filled with the infected, then make every
houſe in a town a Peſthouſe, they dwelling diſperſedly or ſingly:
So is it ina neighbourhood, &c.

65. Old maids lead apes in hell.
66, Batchelours wives and maids children are al-
ways well taught,
67. Maidens muſt be ſeen and not heard.
68. A dogs noſe and a maids knees are always
cold. f
69. Young wenches make old wrenches.
70. As the goodman ſaith, ſo ſay we,
But as the good woman ſaich, ſo it muſt be.
71. Better be an old mans darling, then a young
mans _—
72. &grunting horſe and a groaning wife ſeldom
fail their maſter, f
73. In time comes ſhe whom God ſends,
74. He that marries a widow and three children,
marries four thieves,
75. Two daughters anda back door are three er-
rant thieves.
76. Ablack man's a jewel in a fair womans eye.
77. Fair and flutriſh,(or fooliſh )black and proud,
Longand lazy, little and loud.
77+ Beau & folie vont ſouvent de compagnie. Gall. Beauty
and folly do often go hand in hand, are often match t together.
E 2 78. Put

52 Proverbial Obſervations
78. Put another mans child in your boſom, and
he'll creep out at your elbow. Cheſs.

78. That is, cheriſh or love him, he'll never be naturally
aſſected toward you,

79. The goodman's the laſt knows what's a-
miſs at home.
80. *Tis ſafe taking a ſhive of a cut loaf.
$1, Wine and wenches empty mens purſes.
82. Whodrives an Aſſe and leads a whore,
Hath pain and ſorrow evermore. The Ita-
lians add, & corre in arena.
12. The French ſay, Qui femme croit & aſne meine, ſon
—— ja ſans peine. i. e. He that cruſts a woman and
$ an aſſe, &c.

—

83. Il tent thee, quoth Wood, If I can't rule
my daughter, Vl! rule my good. Chefs.
84. Oſſing comes to boſling. Cheb.
14. Offing, 5. e. offering or aiming to do. The meaning
1 the ſame, with Courtirg and woing brings dallying and
g.

85. A rouk-town's ſeldom a good houſe · wife

at home.

85. This is a Yorkſhire Proverb, A Rouk-town is a goſlip-
ping bouſe-wife , who loves to go from houſe to houſe.

86. Quickly too'd,[ 5. e. toothed Jand quickly go,
Quickly will thy mother have me Ta lb.

$6, Some have it quickly to'd, quickly with God , as if
early breeding of teeth, were a tign of a ſhorr life, whereas
we read of ſome born with teeth in their heads, =
ye

boy Bo

= I £©Q@

f
G
:
p

referring io Love, &c, 5}
have lived long enough ro become famous men , as in the
Romane Hiſtory z AA. Curius Dentatus & Cn. Papyrius Cur-
bs mentioned by Pliny, lib. 7. c. 15, and among our E-

gliſh Kings, Rich. 3.

87. It's a ſad burden tocarry a dead mans child.
88. A little houſe well fill'd, a little land well
till'd, and a little wife well will'd.

To theſe I ſball add one French Proverb,

89. Maiſon faicte, & femme faire, i. 6. A houſe
ready made, and a wife to make; That is,
one that is a virgin and —
90. My ſon's my ſon, till he hath got him a wife,
But my daughter's my daughter all days

of her life.

91. The lone ſheep's in danger of the wolf.

92. Alight heel'd mother, makes a heavy beel'd

ughter.

92, Becauſe ſhe doth all her work her ſelf, and her
daughter the mean time fitting idle, contracts a habit of floth,
Mere pitieuſe fait ſa fille rogneuſe. Gall. A tender mother
bree ds a ſcabby daughter.

g. When the husband drinks to the wiſe, all would
be well: When the wife drinks to the

hus band, all is well.

94. When a couple are newly married, the firſt
moneth is honey- moon or ſmick ſmack:
the ſecond is, hither and thither: the third
is, thwick thwack / the fourth, the Deviltake

them that W thee and I together.

3 93. England

54 Proverbial Obſervations, &c.

05. England is the Paradiſe of women.

95. And well it may be called ſo, as might eaſily be demon-
ſtrated in many particulars , were not all the world already
therein ſatisfied, Hence it hath been ſaid, that if a bridge
were made over the narrow ſeas, all the women in Ex-
rope would come over hither, Yet is it worth the noting,
that though in no — of the world , the men are lo
fond of, lo much governed by, ſowedded to theit wives, yet

hath no Language, ſo many Proverbial inyeRives againſt
women. * b

Proverbs that are entire Sentences.

A,

6 abſent, ſoon forgotten,

1. Parallel to this are, Out of fight, ont of mind, und Sel-
dom ſeen, ſoon forgotten: and not much different thoſe Greek
ones. TuAAH vaioyrts Gia U ci gie. Friends dwel-

ling afar off, are no friends, Aud Tongs ena deceen-
vela Nixvox. Silence or forbearance of converſation diſ-
ſolyes friendſhip.

2. He that's afraid of every graſs, muſt not . piſs
ina meadow, ”
3. He that's afraid of leaves, muſt not come
in a wood. |
» This is a French Proverb engliſhed. d
nelle — au a n

4. He that's afraid of the ng of feathers ,
muſt keep from among wild fowl,

4.M' Cotgrave in his Dictionary produces this as an Eugliſb
Proverb, alle to the — 2,3, 4, 3» Tbeſe —
verbs have all one and the ſame ſence, vic. That timorous per-
ſons muſt keep as far off from danger as they can. They import
alſo, that leſs fear works men unneceſſary diſquiet, puts
them upon abſurd & fooliſh ron renders them *

6 4 5 4

56 pro verbial gentences.

5. He that's afraid of wounds, muſt not come
nigh a battel.
6. He' ſt ne re have thing good cheap, that's «-
fraid to ask the price. Il n' aura ja bon
marche qui ne le demande. Gall.
7. Agree, forthe Law is coſtly.

7. This is good counſel back't with a good reaſon, the
charges of a ſuit many times exceeding the value of the
thing contended for,

8. A man cannot live by the ar.
9. We ſhall lie all alike in our graves.
9. Ates tellus paupert recluditur reguiimque pueris, Hor,

10. No living man, all things can, |

10, Now omnia poſſumus emnes, Virgil. See many ſenten-
ces to this purpoſe in Eraſm. Adag.

11. All is not gold that 22 . in G.
12. All fleſh is not veniſon, v. in FP.

13. Allare not thieves that dogs bark at. v. in T.
14. That is true which a// men ſay. v. in T.
15. Almoſt was never hang'd.

16, Almoſt and very nigh, ſave many a lie.

16. The fignification of this word alm having ſome la-
tirude, men ate apt to ſtretch ir to coyer untruths.

17. He that is angry without a cauſe, ſhall be
pleaſed tex A amends,

18. Two anons and by and by,is an hour and half.

19. Scald not your lips in another mans pottage.

19. Parallel hereto is that place, Proverb 26. 17.
20. The

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20. The higher the Ape goes, the more he ſhews

his rail,

* 20, The higher beggers or baſe bred perfons are advan-
n- | ced, the more they dilcover the lowneſs and baſeneſs of theit
ſpirirs and tempers, For as che Scripture ſaith, Prov. 26. 1+
Homonr is wn{eemly for a fool.

S N

21. Stretch your arm no further then your ſleeve
will reach.

21. Metiri ſe quemque ſuo modulo ac pede werum ef,

22. Lend you mine and ſh----- through

"5 | my ribs,
22, That is lend you that whereof have neceſſary and fre-
= uſe, and want it my ſelf, Ir is a Ruſſick Proverb and of

requent uſe in that nation, and was I ſuppoſe, firlt brought o-
ver to us by ſome Merchants that traded there.

23. Never be Ahmed to eat your meat.

23. Apud men ſam verecundari neminem decet. Eraſmus
. takes notice, that this Proverb is handed down to us from
the Ancients 3 fave that the yulgaradds, weque in lefto,
whereas (ſaith he) Nuſquam magis habenda eſt verecundia
ratio quam ins lecto & comviuvio. Let ſome there are who our
of a ruſtick ſhamefacedneſs or over-mannerlineſs are very
troubleſome at table, expecting to be carved to, and often inyi-
ted to eat, and refuſing what you offer them, &c, The
[talians ſay almoſt in the ſame words, A tavola non bi-
ogna hayer vergogna. And the French, Qui a honte de
manger, 2 honte de vivre, He that is aſhamed to ear, is a-
ſhamed to live.

24. Every man muſt eat a peck of aſves before
he dies.
25. Loſe

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58 Proverhidl Semences,
25. Loſe nothing for anfing.

26. Every Aſſe thinks himſelf worthy to ſt aud

wh the Kings horſes,
27. Aw makes Dun draw,

B,

of N which is good for the back is bad for
the head.

2. A badbuſhis better then the open field.

2. That is, it is better ro have any, though but a bad

friend or relation, then to be quite deſtitute and left to the
wide world.

3. When bale is higheſt, boot it next.

3. Bale is an old Engliſh word ſignifying miſery, and
boot, profit or help. So ir is — 1 When things
are come to the worſt, they ll mend. N

4. Abad ſhift is better then none.
5. Make not balks of good ground,

5. Abalk, Lat. Scamuam; A piece of earth which the
plow ſlips over without _—_ up or breaking. It is alſo
ufed for narrow flips of land left unplowed on purpoſe in
champian countreys, for boundaries between mens lands, or
ſome other convenience,

A Barber learns to ſhave, &c. v. in 8.
6. More words then one go to a bargain.
7. A good bargam is a pickpurſe.
7. Bon marche tire l' argent hors de la bourſe, Gall. Good
cheap is dear,for it tEmprs people to buy what they _ not.
; » Bare

and

for

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Proverbial. Sentences,” 59

8. Bare walls make giddy houſe-wives.

8. 1. e, Idle houſe-wives, they having nothing whereabour
to buſie themſelves and ſhew their good houſewivery. We
ſpeak this in excuſe of the good woman, who doth like $* Paal
widow 7*2:49 q T2 5 93x30, gad abroad a little too much,
or that is blamed for not giving the entertainment that is ex-

ed, or not behaving her ſelf as other matrons do. She
ach nothing to work upon at home, ſhe is diſconſolate and
therefore ſeekerh to diyert her ſelf abroad: the is inclined
o be virtuous, but diſcompoſed h poverty. Parallel to this
K take to be that French Proverb, Vuites res font les
dames folles , Which yet M' Corgrave thus renders,
chambers make women play the wantons; in a different
ſence.

9. The greateſt barkers bite not ſoreſt : or dogs
that bark at diſtance, bite not at hand.

9. Cane chi abbaia non morde. Ital. Chien qui abbaye
ne mord pas. Gall. Canes midi vebememtiiis latramt.

10. A face needs no — .

11. Sr John Barley-corw's the ſtro Knight,

12 It's a hard batre{ where none _ -

13, Be as it may be is no banning,

14. Every bean hath its black.

14. Vt u five uaſcitar. Horat. mio: nopudi-
R% hn abgov . Now off alanda fine eri.
Omni malo Punico ineſt granum putre.

15. Sell not the bears skin before you have
caught him.

15, Non vender la pelle del orſo inanzi che (ia preſo. Ital.

16, A man may rar till his back breaks,

17. All

660 Proverbial Sentences.

17. All that are in bed, muſt not have quiet
reſt.

18. Where Feet are, there is honey. "

18. Where there are induſtrious perſons, there is wealth, d' ot
for the hand of the diligent maketh rich. This we ſee verti- the)
fied in our neighbours the Hollanders. Era

19. Beggers muſt be no chooſers.
20. Set a begger on horſe- back, and he'll ride I ,,,
a gallop. 1K

28. Aſperius wibil eff humili cum ſargit in at. Claudias. |

Il n' elt — 4 pauvre — Gall, There is n

pride to the inriched er's. II villan nobilitado non co-

noſce = wr Ital. The villain ennobled will not own

his kindred or patentage.

21. Sue abegger and get a louſe.

22. Much = to bring beggers to ſtocks, and
when they come there, they'll not put
in their legs.

23. Jegęers breed, and rich men feed.

24. A begger can never be bankrupt,

25. It's one beggers wo, to ſee another by the I in
door go.

15, Kel Node Hoy Dh. Heliod, Eriam men-

dicus moudico invidet. |

26. A good beginning makes a good ending.

26. De bon commencement bonne fin. Gall, & de bonne
vie bonne fin. A good lift wakes a good death,

27. Well egen is half done.

27. Dimidiuom fall i qui cæpit habet. Horat . Which ſome make
a Pencameter by putting in bene befere ca pit. 28. Br

5 F S8 „ &

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Proverbial Sentences, 61

28. Believe well and have well.

29. The belly hath no ears,

19. Venter now habet anres, Ventre affame na point
d' oreilles. Gall. Diſcourſe to or call upon hungry perions,
they'll not mind you, or leave their meat to attend. Or, as
Eraſmus, Ubi de paſtu agitur , non attrnduntur boneſte rati-
ome7, Nothing makes the vulgar more unttactable, fierce and
ſedirious, then ſcarcity and hunger, No ſcit plebes jejuns timere.
There is ſome reaſon the belly ſhould have no cars, becauſe

words will not fill ix.

'30, When ) belly is full, y bones would be at reſt.
31. The belly is not fill'd with fair words.

32. Beſt to bend, while tis a twig.

32, Vdum molle lutum es, nuncnunc properandus & acri,

Fingendus fire fine rota, Perl.
Que prabet latas arbor ſpatiantibus umbras,

Quo poſita eſt primum tempore virga fuit.
Tunc poterat maui bus ſummi tellure revelli,

Nunc ſtat in immenſum viribus act a ſuis, Ovid,
NLuare tumc formandi mores (inquit Eraſmus) cim mollis ad-
buc atas; tunc optimis aſſueſcendum cum ad quidvis cereum eft
ingeni um. Ce qui poulain prend en jeuneſſe, Il le continue
en vieilleſſe. Gall, The tricks a colt getteth at his firſt back-
ing, will whilſt he continueth never be lacking, Corgr.

33. Thebeſt is beſt cheap,

33- For it doth the buyer more credit and more ſervice,

34. Make the beſt of a bad bargain,

35. Ihe beſt things are worſt to come by.

36. Beware of had J wiſt.

37. Birchen tig / break no ribs.

38. Birds of a feather flock together. L. 27.
3s, Like will to like, The Greeks and Latines have

many

* -
au Corn „.

62 Proverbial Sentences.

many Proverbs to this purpoſe, *$ Ae xoaorde reg Xu 4
ts i. Semper Graculus aſſidet Graculs, TG Hit uy i). 8
my ciG&, wipuanu Is pipuat. Theocrit, Cicada d wich

cada chara,forwice formica. "Qs 414 Toy % 4) I
de ds Thy Gporoy, Homer. Odyſſ. 5, Sen per fwmilen
ducit Deus ad ſemilem. "Owntioy d Ne. Simile gar <
det femili. & O uotoy bugis ipitras. Simile appetit fimile 4
unde & "Oworommg Tis £1abnmT@& wing. Likeneſs 1

the mother of love. au aqualem deleffat. Young men
delight in the company of young, old men of old, Learned
men of learned; wicked of wicked, good fellows of drun-
kards, &c. Tilly in Cat. maj. Pares cum paribus (ut eff in
vetere proverbio) facillime congregantur, 4

39. One bird i'th* hand is worth two in the
baſh, C. 55.

39. E meglio aver hoggi un uovo che dimani una galli-
na, Ital. Better have an egg to day, then a hen to mor-
row, Micux vaut un tenez que deux vous l' aurez, Gall,
Ty ruft ben, dh NN „ Ti Toy od ym Jiaxus.
Theocr. Praſentem mulgeas , quid fugientem inſequeri ?
Nimm 3% Te Ne Mommy T dviniuadioru. Heſid,
He that leaves certainty and ſticks to chance, when fools pipe
he may dance.

40. It's an ill b. that beraies its own neſt,
40. Thy ele Hownegy NaCdmray.

41. Every bird muſt hatch her own egg.

41. Tire hoc intrifti omme tibi exedendum eſt. T erent, It
ſhould ſcem this Latine Proverb is ſtill in uſe among the
Dutch, For Eraſmus ſaith of it, Que qui extentia ve
hodie vulgo noſtraii in ore eff. Faber compede quas fecit i}- "
ſe ge. Aulon,

42. Small

Proverbial Sentences, 63
42. Small bird muſt have meat.

42. Children muſt be ſed, they cannot be maintained
with nothing.

43. Birth is much, but breeding more.

44. If you cannot bite, never ſhew your teeth.
By biting and ſcratching, &c. v. in C.

45. He that bites on every weed, muſt needs
light on poiſon.

46. Black will take no other hue.

46. This Diers find true by experience. It may figni
fe , that vicious are x ow or never .
narum nigra wallum colorem bibunt. Plin. lib. 8. h. n.

47. He that wears ble, muſt hang a bruſh at
his back. |

48. A black plum is as ſweet as a white.

48. The prerogative of beauty proceeds from fancy.

49. A black hen lays 4 white egg.

49. This is a French Proverb, Noire geline pond blanc
ceuf, I conceive the meaning of it is, that a black woman
may bear a fair child.

50. He that is a bab, is a ſcab.
51. They have need of a bleſſing, who kneel to
a thiſtle,
$2. Blind men can judge no colours,
52, Il cieco non giudica de colori. tal, Ti gas nat
44T pp ; uud caco cum ſpeculs ?

53. The blind eat many a fly.

54. A

64 Proverbial Sentences,

54. A man were better be half lind, then have

both his eyes our.
55. Whoſo bold as blind bayard?
55. Auavia WP 3egs&, hne ven viper,
Ignorance breeds confidence, conſideration Nowneſs and
warineſs,

56. Who ſo blind, as he that will not ſee ?

57. Bluſhing is vertues colour.

58.. Great beaſt, ſmall roaſt.

58. Grands yanteurs petits faiſcurs, Gall. Beta-
gaiviTa%u wy Ads. Briareus ofſe apparet ch fit lepms, And
esc mes ipys on ms xgx0;,

59. The nearer the boxe, the ſweeter the fleſh,

60, He that is boys to be hang'd, ſhall never be

drown'd.

61, He that was born under a three half-penny

planet, ſhall never be worth twopence.

62. The father to the bowgh, and the ſon to

| the plough.

62, Thisſaying I look upon as too narrow to be placed in
the family of Proverbs; ir is rather tobe deemed a rule or
maxime in the tenure of Gayil kind, where though the fa-
ther had judgement to be hang d, yet there followed no for-
feiture of his eſtate, but his ſon might (a happy man accor-

ding to Horace his deſcription) paterma rura bobus emercere
— Though there be that expound this Proverb thus ,

The father to the bough, i. 6. to his ſports of hawking and
hunting, and the ſon 2 the plow, i. O04 22
mans condition.

63. They that are bound muſt obey,

Bought wit is beſt, v. in W. |
64. Better

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Proverbial Sentences,
64. Better to bow then break.
64. Il vaur mieux plier que rompre. Gall.

65. A bow long bent at laſt waxeth weak.

65. L' arcofi rompeſe ſta troppo teſo. Ital. Arcus wi-
mis iutemſus rampitior, N are not to be ſtrained beyond
their 20-1105 and ſtrength, I his may be applied both to the
body and the mind ; too much labour and ſtudy weakens
and impairs both the one and the other,

Otia corpus alamt, animus quoque paſcitur illis,
Inmodicus contra carpit urrumque labor,

66. Brag*s a good dog if he be well ſet on.

67. Much bran and little meal.

6d. Beware of breed. (Cheſs.

69. That that's bred in the bone will never out
of the fleſh,

69, Chil ha per natura fin alla foſſa dura. Ital. That
which comes naturally continues till death, The Latines
and Greeks have many Provetbial ſayings to this purpoſe,
2s Lupus pilum mutat won mentem, The wolf may 2
his hair (for wolves and horſes grow gray with age) bur
not his diſpoſition,

Naturam expelias furcs licet wſque recurret. Horat.
and "OvuTroTy Tot nors Toy A —— S. —_—_
You can never bring a crabfiſh to g&\ſtraighe forwards,
FUN dy kunov Ur 00500, — — —
ed, will hardly be ſtraighened. Pert
to any vice, will hardly be reclaimed, —
for the moſt part taken in the worſer ſenſe,

70. A bribe will enter without knocking,

71. A broken ſack will hold no corn,

#1, This is a French ——_ Un fac perce ne
peus

66 Proverb;al Sentences,

tenir le grain: though I am not ignorant thut there
— —— both to France and . and ſome
that run through moſt Languages.

72. A broken ſlee ve holdeth the arm back.

73. Much brit little fruit.

74. Who balls the cow muſt keep the calf,

75. The barn: child dreads the fire.

75. Almoſt all Languages aford us ſayings and Proverbs
to this purpoſe, ſuch are x wy Ji 73 vim iyrw, Heſiod.
pe her Je N vnmnG e. Homer. Piſcator illus 2
ſtruck by the Scorpion fiſh or Paſtinaca, whoſe prickles are
eſteemed yenemous. Can' ſcottato da l calda ha
paura poi della fredds. Ital. the ſame we in French ,
Chien eſchaude craint I eau froide, 5. e. The ſcalded dog fears
cold water.

76. Buſie will have bands.

77. Who more b«ſie then they that have leaſt
todo ?.

78. All is not batrey the cow ſhites,

79. What is a pound of butter among a kennel
of hounds ? :

80. They that have good ſtore of batter may
lay it Thick on their bread, [or put ſome
in their ſhooes. ]

10. Cui mwitum eff piperis eti am dleribus immiſcet.

$1, They that have no other meat, bread and
butter are glad to eat,

82. Who bayer bath need of an hundred eyes,
who ſells hath enough of one.

32. 7his is an Italian Proverb, Chi compra ha biſogno di

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cent” occhii, chi vende n* ha aſſai de uno, And it is an uſual
ſaying, Caveat emptor, Let the buyer look to himſolf.

G.
i, Are not would have it.
2. A man can do no more then he can.

3. (are will kill a cat.

3. And yet à cat is ſaid to have nine lives. Cura facit canoe,

4. A pound of care will not pay an ounce of debt.

4. Cento catre di penheri non pageranno un* oncis di de-
bito. Ital. i. e. An hundred cart · load of thoughts will not pay
an ounce of debt. | ;

5. The beſt cart may overthrow.
6. A muffled cat is no good mouſer.
6. Gattaguantata non piglia ſorice. Ital.

7. Vou can have no more ofa cat then her $kin.
8. The c loves fiſh , but ſhe's loath to wet
her feet.
1. Le chat aime lepoifſon, mais il n* aime pas à modiller le
patte. Gall, in the fame words, ſo that it ſeem we borrowed
this from the French.

9. The cat ſees not the mouſe ever.

10. Well might the car wink, when both her eyes
were our.

11. H can the cat help it if themaid be a fodl ?

11, This is an Italian Proverb, Che ne puo la gatta ſe la
mailars 6 mattano, to ſet up things ſecurely,
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12, Acat may look on a King.
13. An old cat laps as much as a young kitlin.
14. When the cat is away, the mice play. Ital.
14. Les tats ſe promenent a] aiſe la ou il n' y a point
chats, Gall. 0
15. When candles are out, all cats are gray.
15. Jone is as good as my Lady in the dark. Auyy# AN-
708 v 7 unn „ auTiil.
16, The cat knows whoſe lips ſhe licks,
17. Cry you mercy, kill'd my cat.
17. This is ſpoken to them whodo one a fhrewd rurn, and
then make farishaRion with asking pardon or crying mercy,
18, By biting and ſcratching cats and dogs come
together,

18. i. e. Men and maid-ſeryants that wrangle and quarrel
moſt one with the other, are often ebſerved to marry together.

19. Who ſhall hang the bell about the cats neck?

19. Appiccar chi yuol* chil ſonaglio à la gatta ? Ital. The
mĩce at a conſultation held how to ſecure themſelves from the
cat, reſolyed upon hanging a bell about her neck, to give
warning when ſhe was near, but when this was reſolved, they
were as far to ſeek; for who would do it. This may be
ſarcaſtically applied torhoſe who preſcribe impoſſible or unpra-
Qicable means for the effeing any thing.

Aſcalded cat fears cold water, v. in 8.

20, He that leaves certainty and ſticks to chance,
When fools pipe he may dance.

21. They may ſit i'th* chair that have malt to ſell,

22, It chanceth in an hour, that comes not in ſe-

ven years.
22. Plus enim fati valet hora benigni, Quam fire Veneris
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commendet epiſtola Marti, Horat. Every man is thought to haye
ſome lucky hour, wherein he hath an opportunity offered
him of being happy all his life ; could be bur diſcern it, and
embrace the occaſion.

23. Change of paſture makes fat calves,

24. Charity begins at home,

24. Many ſentences occurre in the ancient Greek and
Latine Poets to this purpoſe, as. Omnes fibi meli eſſe ma-
lunt quim alteri, Terent, Andr. Proxzimus ſum comet
mihi. ibid. @1A4 dV $auvey wanracy wdeis tra, Ke
v. Eraſm. Adag.

25. When good chear is lacking, our friends will
be packing.

26. It's a wiſe chi/4 knows his own father.

26. & 4 mw ms r ve dures driyyu Homer, 0dyſ.2.

27. When the childis chriſtned, you may have
godfathers enough.

27. When 3 mans need is ſupplied or his occafions over,
people are ready to offer thei ce or ſervice,

28. Children and fools ſpeak truth.

28. The Dutch Proyerb hath it thus, You are not to expect
truth from any but children, perſons drunk or mad. In vine
veritas, we know,

29. Children and fools have merry lives.

29, For our of ignorance or forgerfulneſs, and inadverten-
ey, they are not concern'd either for what is paſt, or for what
is tocome, Neither the remembrance of one, nor tear
—— other "> them, bur * ſence *

: nothing ſticks upon them, t y nothing to heart.
Hencg ir bath been ſaid, NI ſcire eft vita —
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which that of Ecclefiaſtes gives ſome countenance, He that en-
creaſeth knowledge encreaſeth ſorrow.

30. So we have the chixk, we'll bear with the
ſtink,
30. Lucri bonns eft odor ex ve — This was the anſwer

of the Emperour Veſpaſiaw, to thoſe who complain'd of his
ſetting gabel on a and other ſordid Loo

31, The nearer the Church, the further from
God,
31. Y # a French P. overb, Pres de' egliſe loin de Dieu.

32. Where God hath his Charch, the Devil
will have his chappel.
33. Pater noſter built Churches, and Our father
pulls them down.
33+ 1-do not look upon the building of Churches as an ar-
ument of the goodneſs of the Roman Religion, for when men
ave once entertained en opinion of expiating fin and me-
riting heaven by ſuch works , they will be forward enough
to give not onely the fruit of their land, but even of their
body for the fin of their ſoul: and irs cafierto part with
ones goods then ones fins,

34. Claw a ch«rl by the breech, and he will
ſh---- in your fiſt.
34. Perſons of ſervile temper or education, have no ſenſe
of honour or ingenuity, and muſt be — wich accordingly,
Ungmentem prong it entem ruſticus wagi
Which ſentence both tbe French and Italian in their lan-
uage have made 2 Proyerb, Oigner villain. qu il vous
poindra. Gall, Kc. Inſomuch that one would be apt with
Arifloele to think, that there are ſervi natur ã.
35. The

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35. The greateſt clerks, are not always the

wiſeſt men.

35+ For prudence is gained more by praiſe and conyer-
ſation, then by ſtudy and contemplation,

36. Haſty climbers, have ſudden fallt.

36. Thoſe that riſe ſuddenly from a mean condition to
great eſtate or dignity, do often fall more ſuddenly, as 1
might eaſily inſtance in many Court - favourites : and there
is reaſon for it , becauſe ſuch a ſpeedy adyancement is apt
to beget pride, and conſequently folly in them, and envy
in others, which muſt needs precipitate them, Sudden
changes to extraordinary good or bad fortune, are apt to
turn mens brains,

37. Can jack anapes be merry, when his clog is
at's heels ?
38. Cloſe ſits my ſhirt, but cloſer my skin.
38, That is, I love my friends well, but my ſelf better:
none ſo dear to me as I am to my ſelf, Or my body is
dearer to me then my goods,

39, A cloſe mouth catcheth no flies,

39. People muſt ſpeak and ſolicite for themſelves, orthey |
are not like to obtain preferment, Nothing carries it like
to boldneſsand i e, yea, — 2 Men
will give to ſuch ſe drfendendo, to avoid their trouble, who
— have no conſideration of the modeſt, though never

ſo much needing or well deſerving,

40. It'sa bad c/oth indeed will take no colour,
40, Cartiva è quella lana che non ſi puo tingete. tab

41. Better ſee a clext then a hole out.
F 4 42. They

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42. They that can coble and clout, ſnhall have work
when others go without.

43. Cloudy mornings turn to clear evenings,
43. Non fi male mnunc & olim fic erit.

44. Glowing coals ſparkle oft.

44. When the mind is heated with any paſſion, it will
often break but in words and expreſſions, Pſalm 39.

45. You muſt cut your coat according to your

cloth.

45. Noi facciamo la ſpeſa ſecondo l' entrata. Ital. We
muſt ſpend according to our income. Selon le pain il faut le
couteau. Gall, ——_ to the bread muſt be the knife,
& Fol eſt qui plus deſpend que ſa rente ne vaut. Gall. He
is a fool that ſpends more then his receits. Sumptus cen-
ſum ne ſuperet. Plaut. Paen. Meſſe tenws propria vive, Perl,

46. Let him that is co/4 blow the coal.

47. In the coldeſt flint there is hot fire.

48. Every cok is proud on his own dunghil

48. Gallus in ſus fterquilivio plurimum poteft. Senec. in
ladicro. The French (ay, Chien ſur ſon fumiere eſt hardi,
A dog is ſtout on his own dunghil,

49. A ragged colt may make a good horſe,

49. An unhappy boy may make a good man. Ir is uſed
ſometimes to ſignifie, that children which ſeem leſs hand-
ſome when young, do afterwards grow into ſhape and come-
lineſs : as on the contrary we ſay, fair in the cradle, and
foul in the ſaddle : andthe Scots, A kindly aver will never
make a good horle, *

50. Compariſonsare odious.
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51. He's an ill cook that cannot lick his ownfingers-

81. Celuy gouverne bien mal le miel qui n' en taſte &
ſes _— n' enleche. Gall, He is an ill kceper of honey,
who taſtes it not,

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32. God ſends meat, and the Devil ſends cooky.
11 53. Salt cooks bear blame, bur freſh bear ſhame.

54. More coſt more worſhip.

55. Auch corn lies under the ſtraw that is mt

* ſeen.
56. I'll not change a cottage in poſſeſſion, for 4

0 king dom in re ver ſion.
c 57. All cover, all loſe.
5 57. Qui tout couvoite tout perd, Gall, & Qui trop em-

igne rien n' eſtraind, He that graſps at too much, holds
. aſt nothing. The fable of the dog is known , who catch-
ing at the appearance in the water of the ſhoulder of mut-
ton he had in his mouth, let it drop in, and loſt it.

58. Count not your chickens before they be hatch't
59. S0 many countreys, ſo many cuſtomes,
5 59. Tant de gens tant de guiſes. Gall.

60. A friend in Court, is worth a penny in 2
mans purſe.

60, Bon fait avoir amy en cour, car le proces en eſt plus
court. Gall, A friend in court makes the proceſs ſhort.

61. Far from Court, far from care.

62. Full of courte ſie full of craft,

62, Sincere and true hearted perſons are leaſt given to
complement and ceremony, It's ſuſpicious he hath ſome
deſign upon me, who courts and flatrexs me.
63. Leſs

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63. Leſs of your cosrteſe and more of your

purſe,
63. Ke opitulandum non verbis.

64. Curt cows have ſhort horns.

64. Dat Deut immiti coruma curta bout,
Providence ſo diſpoſes that they who have will, want power
or means to hurt. 7

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65. Who would keep a cow, when he may have
a pottle of milk for a penny?

66, Many a good cow hath but a bad calf,

66, "AvSpoy ipony Tixve ThuaTae, Heroum filil uon.
lad eo zdy Tar Trees Bute mere Ex. 01 Me-
oves Kartiis H. t. ee. N N N, d:64h4s, Homer,Odpſ.+,
Alias Spartianus in the life of Severus ſhews by many
examples, that men famous for leatni venue, valour,
ſuccels have for the moſt part either lett behind them no
children, or ſuch as that it had been more for their ho-
nour and the intereſt of humane affairs, that they had died
childleſs. We might add unto thoſe which be produceth ,
many inſtances out of our on hiſtory, So Edward the
firſt 2 wiſe and yaliant Prince, left us Edward the ſecond ;
Fiward the black Prince, Richard the ſecond : Henry the
fifth a valiant and ſucceſsful King, Heu the ſixth a very
unfortunate Prince, though otherwiſe a good man. And yet
there want not in hiſtory inſtances to the concrary, is among
the French, Charles Martell Pipia and Charlemaign in con-
tinual ſucceflion , ſo Foſeph Scaliger the ſon, was in
of ſcholarſhip no whit inferiour to Fulias the father, Fortes

ercantur fo: tibus & tonis, &c.

67. Where coin's not common, commons muſt be
ſcant, |

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68. Much com much care.
6. Creſcentem ſequitur cura petuniam, Hotat.

69. The greateſt crabs are not always the beſt

meat.

69. Great and good are not always the ſame thing, though
our Language oft makes them ſynonymous terms, —_
we call a great way a good way, and a — —
&c. in which and the like phraſes bgnifies ſomewhat
leſs then great, viz. of a middle 2 or indifferent. Bowes
alſo in Latine is ſomerimes uſed in the ſame ſenſe, as in
that of Perſfous, Sat. 2. Bona pars procerum, Les boeufs
ne font pas les grands journees, Gall, The greateſt oxen
rid not moſt work. ,

70. There is a craft in dawbing.
70. There is 3 myſtery in the meaneſt trade.

71. No man is hu craft{-maſter the firſt day.

72. Each croſs hath its inſcription.

72. Croſſes and afflitions come not by chance, they
ſpring not our of the earth, but are laid on men for ſome
juſt reaſon. Divines truly ſay, that many times we may read
the fin in the puniſhment.

Shameleſs craving muſt have, &c. v. in 8.

73. You muſt learn to creep before you go.

74. Soon crooks the tree, that good gambrel

would be.

74. A gambrel is a crooked piece of wood, on which
butchers hang up the carcaſſes of beaſts by the legs, from
the Italian word gamba fignifying a leg. Parallel to this is
thar other Pr „Ik early pricks chat will be a thorn,
Aded 4 teneris afſſueſcers malt <,

75. The

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75. The crow thinks her own bird faireſt.

75. Aſinus aſmo, ſus ſui pulcher, & ſum cuique pulchrum,
So the Bthiopians are ſaid to paint the Devil white. Every
one is partial to, and well conceited of his own art, his own
compoſitions, his own children, his own countrey , &c,
Self-love is a mote in every ones eye ; it influences biaſ
ſes and blinds the judgements even of the moſt modeſt and
perſpicacicus, Hence it is (as Arifforle well obſer ves) that
moſt part love to be flattered." Rhetor. 2,
& A tous oiſeaux leur nids ſont beaux. Gall, Every bird

likes its own neſt,

76, No carrion will kill a crow.

77. ( wming is no burden.

77. Ir is part of Bias hisgoods, it will not hinder a mans
flight when the enemies are at hand,

78. A bad caſtome is like a good cake, better bro-
ken then kept.
79. What cannot be cared, muſt be endured.

of Levius fit patientia quicquid corrigere eff nefas. Horat,

80: Many things fall between the cy and the lip.

$0. Mn'ta cadunt inter calicem ſwpremdque labra.

DIe wwmEty Tis wane x NEA dupe.
Citamtur ab A, Gellio. De la main à la bouche ſe perd
ſouvent la ſoupe, Gall. Between the hand and the mouth, the
broth is many times ſhed. i

81. A curſt carre muſt be tied ſhort.
$1, A meſchant chien court lien. Gall.

82. Cuſtome is another nature. |
83, Deſperatecuts, muſt have deſperate cures,

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D.

— I. H* that will not be ruled by his own dame,
&c. muſt be rul'd by his ftepdame.

— 2. He dances well, to whom Fortune pipes.

in

hat 2+ Aſſai ben balla 2 chi Fortuna ſuora, Ital. The French

1, have a Proverb, Mieux vaut une once de fortune qu une livre

ird de ſageſſe. Better is an ounce of good Fortune, then a
pound of good forecaſt.

3. They love dancing well, that dance among

thorns,
as 4. When you go to dance, take heed whom you taks
by the hand.
5. It's as good to be inthe dark, as without light.
J- Jone's as good as my Lady in the dark. v. in J.

6. One may ſee day at a little hole.
7. The better day, the better deed.

b 7. A bon jour bon oeuvre, Gall,
Dicenda bona ſunt bona verba dic.

. 8. To day me, to morrow thee.
8. Anjourd* huy Roy, demain rien. Gall,

d 9. To day a man, to morrow a mouſe,
J 10. The longeſt day muit have an end. J
10. Il eſt 6 grand jour qui ne vienne à veſpte. Gall,

11, Be the day never ſo long, at length cometh
evenſong.

12. Ti day ſtill while the Sun ſhines

13. Speak

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13. Speak well of the dead.

13. Mortuis now convicieandum, & De mortuis nil nifih,
wan. Namque cim mortui non mordent iniquum eff ut mr.
deantur.

14. He that waits for dea mens ſhooes, may g
long enough barefoot.

14 A longue corde tire qui d' auttuy mort deGre. He hath
but a cold ſuĩt who longs for another mans death.

— After death the Doctour.

„ is French Proverb, Apres la mort le medecin,
| iel to that ancient Greek one Merz mA$uov i U ut
Poft bellum auxilium. We find it in Vuimtilians Declam,
—— L with another of — import; Quid qu
* pg. Nui quod nemo aquam 22
5 — A e is burnt to aſhes, it"
too late to pour on water.

16. He that could know what would be dear, I bet
Need be a merchant but one year.
16, Such a merchant was the Philoſopher Thales, of whom
r proof, that it was in the
of a dean. of Oli, the year low leaſed , 2
ſuture Olives, the boughe up at D
rates all that kind of fruit FO

17. Who gives awa bile A
Take gr rs ee” knock him on the head.
I *.
— himſelf to 2 n

18. Out of debt, out of danger.
18. EYA⁰ Y & fe eee. Happy be that ones

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Deſperate cuts muſt have, &c. v. in C.
19. There's difference between ſtaring and ſtark
blind [Lor mad.

19. = voy a double ſenſe, if you read it
fark mad, it ignifies, chat we to diſtinguiſh, and not
Y $0 Y preſent! pay him ſtark mad that ſtares 3 little, or him
2 rank who is a little impertinent ſometimes, &c, If
hath vou read it ſtark blind, then it hath the ſame ſenſe with
that of Horace,
Eſt inter Tanaim medium ſoceriimque vitelli,
and is a reprehenſion to thoſe who put no difference be»
4 _ extremes as perſect blindneſs and Lywcews his
cin, 5g

an 20. Dinners can't be long, where dainties mant.
21. He that ſaveth his diaxer, will have the more
it's for his ſupper,

21. This is @ French Proverb, Qui garde ſon diſne i

2 mieux à ſouper. He that ſpares when he is y may the
ar, better ſpend when he is ola.” COME

if by.
mor.

om | 22. An ounce of diſcretion, is worth a pound

wer of wit.

3 22, The French ſay, An ounce of good fortune, &c.
GN TU yas AG") dy " ppevay mivy., Natianz.
Guita fortune pra dolis ſapientie.

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d, 23, Givethe Devil his due,
1 24. Seldom lies the Devil dead in a ditch.

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lical perſons, when they ſeem moſt mortified. Perchanty
this tb may allude to the fable of the for, which eſca.
ped by feigning himſelf dead, I know no phraſe more fre,
in the mouths of the French and Italiaws then thi
Devil is dead, — — — a difficulty fo a
conquered, a journey almolt fini or as we The
neck of a buſingſs broken. ; f

25. As good eat the Devil, as the broth he is
boil'din,
26. The Devil rebukes fin,

26, Cladius accuſat meches, Aliorum medicus ipſe ulceri -
bus ſcates.

27. He muſt needs go, whom the Devil drives,

28. He had need have a long ſpoon , that eats
with the Devil.

29. The Devil ſhites upon a great heap.

30. The Devil is good when be is pleaſed.

31. The Devil is never nearer, then when we
are talking of him.

32. The Devils meal is half bran,

32. La farine du diable nꝰe que bran, or & en va moitie en

bran, Gall,

33. What is gotten over the Devil. back, is ſpent
under his belly.
„Aale parta male dilabmntur. What is
few * — many — in rice nl
34, Every dog hath his day, |
35. All the dogs follow the falt bitch.
36, Love me and love my dg.
36. Qui aime Jean aime ſon chien. Gall, 37. He

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37. He that would hang his dog, gives out firſt

that he's mad.
27, He that is about to do any thing difingenuous, unwor-
thy, or of evil fame, firſt bethinks himſelf of ſome plauſible

pr erence,

38. He that keeps another mans dog, ſhall have
nothing left him but the line.

38. This is a Greek Provetb, "Os xv tee Fire

bre wovoy AivGr} wiv, The meaning is, that he who

beſtows a beneſit upon an ungratefal perſon, looſes his coſt,

For if a dog breaks looſe he preſently gets him home to his
former maſter, leaving the cord he was tied with.

39. What? keep a dog and bark my ſelf,
* That is, muſt J keep ſervants and do my work my
Eli,

40. Hang a deg on a crabtree, and he'll never
love verjuyce,

40. This is a ludicrous and nu ſaying , for a
once hang*d 1 loving or ho ts ma —
beaſts ſhun thole things, by or for which they have ſmarted.
Er olg dy avon arypwnr@ Timon Tims Nag whit
nd/wy 1dvre. Amphis in Ampelnryo apud Stohawm,

Et mea cymba ſemel vaſts percuſia procelld,
Illum quo leſa eſt, horret adire locum. Ovid,

41. Dogs bark before they bite.
42, It's an ill doo that deſerves not a cruſt,
42. Digna canis pabulo. 'AZiz n oy Ts bpduar@.
Eraſm. ex S nida.
43. It is an ill 4og*s nor worth the whiſtling,
G 44. He

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44. He that lies down with dogs, muſt riſe up
with fleas,

44+ Chi con cane dorme con pulce fi leya. Ital. © Qui ſe
couche avec les chiens ſe leve avec des puces, Gall.

45. Give a child till he craves, and a dog while
his tail doth wave, and you'll have a fair
dog, but a foul knave.

46. The dog that licks aſhes, truſt not with
—

46. The Italians ſay this of a cat, Gatto che lecca cenere

wow fidar farins.

47. Into the mouth of a bad dog, often falls a
good bone.
47.Souyent à mauyais chien tombe un bon os en gueule.Gall.

48. Hungry dogs will eat dirty pudding.

8. Fez d flomachus vulgaria temmit.
Ala 4 * — de — pain. Gall, To him
who is hungry any bread ſeems good, or none comes amils,

49. It's an eaſie thing to find a ſtaff to beat a
| dog : ora ſtone to throw ata dog.

49. Qui veutbartre ſon chien trouve aſſex de baſtons. Gal
Malefacere qui vult mſquamnon cauſam inueuit. Publ. Mimus -
He who hath a mind ro do me a miſchief, will eafily find
ſome pretence. Mixeg. auipans fit T4 mera: j .
To do evil, a {light pretence or occaſion will ſerve mens turns,

** An old dog will learn no tricks. v. in O.
50. Do well and have well.

51, Drafft is good enough for ſwine.
: 52. Drawn

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it. Swe. ah ani. oo tos” Swmc aA

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Proverbial Sentences. 8;

_ 4Drawn well, N fal fee .

73. have ſweeteſt water.

$3. Puten þ hauriat ur melior evadit. - pier d1TAS-
pa brxnu wiviTa. Baſil. inepiſt. ad Enftachium medicum.
All things, eſpecially mens parts, are improved and advan-
ced by uſe and exerciſe, Standing waters are apt to cor-
rupt and putrifie: weapons laid up and diſuſed do contract
ruſt, nay the very air if not agitated and broken with the
wind, is thought to be unhealchful and peſtilential, efpeci»
ally in this our native Countrey, of which it is ſaid, Au-
glia vento ſa, ſi mon ventoſa vene no ſa.

54. After a dream of a wedding comes a c

55. Draff was his errand, but drisk he would

have.

56. Dranken folks ſeldom take harm.

57. Ever drunk, ever dry.

57. Parthi quo plus bibwnt ed plus ſitiunt.

58. What ſoberneſs conceals Jrankenxeſs re-

veales.

58. Quad eff in corde ſobrii eſt in ore ebrii, Tà iy nap-
Jia T3 vie! & S Tis yadmns Ni Ts aD.
Plutarch, att d Eraſmus Cites to this purpoſe a
ſentence our of Herodotus, "Oiys xamb/]& emen Im,
when wine ſinks, words ſwim : and Pliny hath an elegant
ſaying to this purpoſe, Vinum uſqus aded mentis arcana pro-
dit ut mortifera etiam inter pocula loquantur homines, u
per jugulum quidem redituras voces contineant. Quid non =
brietas deſygnat Þ operta recludis. |

59. The ducł fare well inthe Thames.
60, Dumb folks get #0 lands,

60, This is parallel to that, Spare to ſpeak and ſpare to
ſpeed, —— cloſ; — —

e mouth catcheth no flies.
G 2 1. Early

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84 Proverbial Sentences,
E.

1. L Arup and never the nearer, |
2. Early ſow early mow. |

3. It early pricks that will be a thorn,

3+ Soon crooks the tree that good gambrel would be.

4. The early bird catcheth the worm,

5. The longer Eaſt the ſhorter Weſt.

6. You can't eat your cake, and have your cake,

7. Eating and drinking takes away ones ſtomack.
7. En mangeant! appetit ſe perd. To which the French have

another ſeemingly contrary. En mangeant l' appetit vient,
parallel to that of ours, One ſhoulder of — —

8. He that will eat the kernel muſt crack the nut.
8. Nei unc leum eſſe vult uucem frangat qportet. No gains
without pains.

Madam P arnel crack the aut and eat the
kernel,
9. Eaten bread is forgotten.
10. It's very hard to ſhave an egg.
10, Where nothing is, nothing can be had.

11. Better half an egg then an empty ſhell,

11. Better half a loaf then no bread,

12. III -gging makes ill begging.
12, Evil perſons by enticing and fla draw on others to
be as bad — ing al
I3,

Proverbial Sentences, 85

13. All eb ¶ or helps as the Geni- wren ſaid, when
ſhe piſt in the ſea.

13, Many littles make a mickle, the whole Ocean is made
up of drops,

14. Empty veſlels make the greateſt ſound.

14. The Scripture ſaith, A fools voice is known by multi-
titude of words, None more apt to boaſt then thoſe who
have leaſt real worth; leaſt whereof juſtly to boaſt, The deep-
eſt ſtreams flow with leaſt noiſe,

15. Empty hands no hawks allure.
16, A right & knows not when a thing
is well. |
17, Whoſo hath but a mouth, ſhall ne'rein E-
gland ſuffer drought. v. ſupra.

17. For if he doth but open ir, its a chance bur ir will
rain in. True it is, we ſeldome ſuffer for want of rain: and
if there be any fault in the temper of our air, it is its over
moiſtneſs, which inclines us to the ſcurvy and conſumprions z
diſeaſes the one ſcarce known, the other but rare in hotter

Countreys, - *

18, Every thing hath an end, and a pudding hath
two,
19. All's well that end well.
19. Exitus alta probat.

20. Ther's never exough where nought leaves.

20, This is an Italian Proverb, Non vi è à baſtanza ſe ni-
ente auyanza, Iris hard ſo to cut the hair, as that there ſhould

be no want and nothing to ſpare,
G 3 21, Better

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86

Proverbial Sentences,
21. Better be exvied then pitied.
21, Thisis a ſaying in moſt es, although ir hath

little of the nature — — 7 2 ATLT

di i duxTHpe XN. Herodot. in Thalia. A Tus xpficomy

zun e. Pindar, Piu toſto invidia che com-

„ tral,

22. Eſſex ſtiles, Kentiſh miles, Norfolk wiles

many men beguiles.

22, For ſtiles Eſſex may well vie — 9 — Eu-
gland, it being wholly divided into ſmall cloſes, and not one
common field that I know of in the whole County. Le
of miles I know not what reaſon Kent hath to pretend to,
generally ſpeaking , the further from I ondos the longer the
miles, bur for cunning in the Law and wrangling, Norfolk
men are juſtly noted,

Fd

Where every hand fleeceth, &c.v. fleeceth.
23. Evenins orts are good. morning fodder,
24. The evening crowns the day, E. 17.

24. La vita il fine, e' | di loda la ſeta. al. The end or death

commends the life, and the evening the day, Dici que bratw
Ante obitum nemo ſupremdque junera debet. Ovid.

25. E xchavge is no robbery,
26, A bad excuſe is better then none at all,
27. Experience is the miſtreſs of fools,

27. Experiemia flultorum magiſtra. Wiſe men learn by
others harms, fools by their own, like Epimnethews, os rei
xaxdy i vonon.

28. What the cye ſees not, the heart rues not.
29.Better ey out then always aking Cor watching]
29. Le coeur ne vent douloir ce que ] oeil ne peut veoit. Gal.

Therefore

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Proverbial Sentences, 87

Therefore it's not good to peep and pry into every corner, to
be too inquiſitive into what our ſeryants or relations door ſay,

leſt we create our ſelyes unneceſſary trouble.

zo. He that winketh with one eye, and ſeeth with
the other,
I wouldnot truſt him, though be were my
brother,
30. This is only a Phyſiognomical obſeryacion,

F.

Good face, &c. v. band,
N. Faint heart ne're won fair Lady.
I. AA“ of 8 dwvuiyTes avdpss bret mpomwor ion
cur. Suidas ex Enpolide, Timidi nunquam it atutre trop
Ja coiiard n' aura belle amie. Gail, For, audentes forrwna

govt,

2. Fair feathers make fair fowls.

2, Fair clothes, ornaments and dreſſes ſer off perſons, and
make chem appear handſome, which if ſtript of them would
ſeem but plain and homely, God makes, and apparel ſhapes,

Fair words, &c, v. words.
3. Fair and ſoftly goes far ina day,

3. Pas à pas on ya bien loing, Gall, Chi va piano ye ſa-
no è anche lontano. ral. He that goeth ſoftly, goeth ſure
and alſo far, He thar ſpurs on roo ar fi out,

tires before he comes to his journeys end, Fina leute.
4. 2 and foul in the ſaddle,
A fair is half a portion,
* G 4 6, Praiſe

88
6, Praiſe a fair day at night. F. 56.
6. Or elſe you may repent, for many times clear mornings

turn to cloudy evenings.

Proverbial Sentences.

7. The faireſt ſilk, is ſooneſt ſtained.

7. This may be applied to women. The handſomeſt wo-
men are ſooneſt corrupted, becanſe they are moſt tompted. It
may alſo be applied to good natures, which are-more cafily
drawn away by evil company.

The fairer the hoſteſs, &c, v. hoſteſs,

8. Men ſpeak of the fair, as things went with
them there.

9. If a man once fall, all will tread on him.

9. Vulgus ſequitur fortunam & odit dammatat. Juven.
10. There's falſbood in fellowſhip.

11, Common fame's ſeldom to blame.

11, A general report is rarely without ſome ground. No
ſmoke without ſome fire, nun „ un , mummy ami>-
AuTes irre Tornol Agri gnpiluor, , dne Bn: x

ri. Heſiod.

Too much familiarity breeds contempt.
Kimia familiaritas contemptum parit. E tribus optimiss rebus
tres peſſime oriumtur 3 & veritate odium, 6 familiaritate con-

temptu, e felicitate invidja. Plutarch.

Fancy may boult bran and think it flour.
12, You can't fare well, but you muſt cry
roaſt- meat.
12. Saſſe bonne farine ſans trompe ny buccine. Ga. Boult
thy ſine meal, and eat good paſt, without report or *

dr

Proverbial Semtences. 89

blaſt, *Or di GrT4; cuny . They chat are thirſty
drink ſilently. Si cor dus ticuiſſet habe ret

Plus dapis & rixa multo minus mnoidieque, Horat.

13. Far ſetch'c and dear bought 's good for
Ladies.
13. Vache de loin a laict aſſex. Gall,

14. It's good farting before ones own fire,
15. Aman far from his good, is near his harm.

15, Qui eſt loing du plat eſtprez de ſon dommage, Gall.
Far from the diſh and near to his loſs for — they
that are far from the diſh, ſhed their broth by the way.

16, As good be out of the world, as out of the
faſhion.

17. Little knows the fat ſow, what the leanone
means,

18. The father to the bough, &c. v. bough.

19. Where no fault is, there needs no pardon,

20. Every man hath his faxlrs, or, be is hive.
leſs that is faultleſs. v. B. 13.

20. Hs viii nemo fine naſcitur, Quiſque ſuos patimut ma.

nes, Cc, v. B. 3.

21. It's good to fear the worſt, the beſt will

ſave it ſelf.
a flail.

22. X

23. Je fence againſt j ill forte.

22, Some evils and calamities aſſault ſo yiolently , that there
is no reſiſting of them.

No man loves his ferters- though made of gold.
24. The

90 Proverbial Sentences,
24. Thefineſt laws ſconeſt ſtains, F. 7.
25. The fineſſ eo often hurts the foot.
No fraſt toa miſers.
26. Better come at the latter end of a feaſt, then
the beginning of a fray,
27. There is no fire without ſome ſmoke,
27. Nul feu ſansfumbe. Gall. :

28, Fire and water are good ſervants, but bad
8 maſters.

29. Firſt come firſt ſerved.

29.Qui premierarrive au moulin,premier doit mouldre.Gall,

30. It's ill fiſing before the net, One wonld rather
think after the net.
31, No fi6ino to fiſhing in the ſea,
31. Il fait beau peſcher en eau large. Gall. It's good filk
ing in large waters, |

32. Fiſhes are caſt away, that are caſt into

dry pond 's
33. It's good fiſhing in troubled waters,
33. Iln' y a peſchequ” en eau trouble, Gall In troubled
waters; that is, in a time of publick calamity, when all things
are in contuſion. ' |

34. Freſh fþ and new come gueſts, ſmell by
they are three days old.
34+ L' hoſte & le poiſſon paſſe trois j nt, Gall. Pi-
ſcit nequam eſt niſi — 4. Ordinary friends are welcome
at firſt, bur we ſoon grow weary of them.
The beſt fiſh ſwim neer the bottom, +
35. Still

ve

Proverbial Sentences.
35. Still be fiſneth that catcheth on-.
35- Tousjours peſche qui en prend un. Gall.

36, All l is not veniſon,

36. This is a French Proverb, Toute chair n' eſt pas
venaiſon.

37. A flow will have an ebb.
38. No flying without wings.
He would fain fly, but he wants feathers.

38. Sine penns velare haud facile eſt. Plaut in Penula No-
thing of moment can be done without neceſſary helps, or con-
venient means, Non ſi puo yolar ſenza ale, Ital,

39. Where every hand fleeceth, the ſheep goers naked.

40, Howcan the fole amble, whenthe horſe and
mare trot,

41. A fool and his money are ſoon parted,

42. No fool to the old fool.

Every man hath a fool in his ſleeve.

43. Fools will be medling.

44. A fool may ask more queſtions in an hour,
then a wiſe man can anſwer in ſeyen
years,

45. A fools bolt is ioon ſhot,

45. De fol juge brieve ſentence, Gall. A fooliſh judge
paſſes a quick ſentence.

46, As the fool thinks , ſo the bell tinks, or
clinks.

47. Fools ſet ſtools for wiſe folks to ſtumble at.

48. Fools build houſes, and wiſe men buy them.

49. Fools

93 Proverbial Sentences,

49. Fools make feaſts, and wiſe men eat them,

50. 3 lade water, and wiſe men catch the
hin,

51. The fool will not part with his bable, for the
tower of Lon don.

If every fool ſhould wear a bable, fewel

would be dear.

52. It's good to go on ft, when a man hath a
horſe in his hand.

2. AV aiſe marche à pied, Qui mene ſon cheyal par la

bride, Gall.

53. Forbearance is no 1
54. To forget a wrong's the beſt revenge. R. g.
54. laſu mi eſt animi exiguique voluptas Ultio-== Juyen,

$5. Inthe forehead and the eye, the lecture of the
mind doth lie.

55. Vu'tus index auimi.

56. It's not good praiſing a ford, till a man be
over. F. 6.

$7. Fere warn d forearmed,

37. Pramonitus pramunitus. 0

587 Forecaſt is better then work-hard,

$9. Fortune favours fools.

59. Fortuna favet fatuts,

Foul water, &c. v. ater,
An old fox, &c. v. Wd.
60. The fox prey's furtheſt from's hole.

60. To avoid ſuſpicion, Crafty thieves ſteal far from home.
61, The

proverbial Sentences. 93

61. The fox never fares better, then when he's
ban'd Cor curſt.]

61, Populus me ſibilat, at mii plaudo
Ipſe domi, quotios nummos comtemplor in arcs, Horat,

62. When the fox preaches, beware of your
geeſe,

63. Fire quoth the fox, when he piſt on the ice.
He ſaw it ſmoak't, and thought there would
be fire tre long.

63. This is ſpoken in derifion to thoſe which have great

expectat ion from ſome fond deſign or undertaking which is not
itn ro ſucceed, 8

64. The fox knows much, but mote he that
catcheth him. |

65. Every fox muſt pay his own skin to the
flayer.

65. Tutte le volpi fi trouvano in pelliceria. Ital. En fin
les rds ſe trouvent chez le pelletier. Gall, The crafty
are at — Thieves moſt commonly come to the

gallows at

66, What's freer then gift?
Freſh cooks, &c. v. cooks.

67. It's good to have ſome friends both in heaven
and hell.

68. He is my friend, that griadeth at my mill.

68+ That ſhews me real kindneſs.

69. Prove thy friend ere thox have need.
70. Allare not friends, that ſpeak us fair,
71. No

94 Proverbial Sentences,

71. No longer foſter no longer friend. P. 26.
S. 48.

72. As a man is friexded, ſo the law is ended.

73. Where ſhall a man have a worſe friend, then
he brings from home ?

74. Friends may meet, but mountains never
greet.

74. Mons cum monte wn miſcebitur, Pares cum paribu,
Two haughty perſons will ſeldom agree together. Deux hommes
ſe rencontrent bien, mais jamais deux montagnes. Gall,

75. Many kinsfolk, few friends.

75. Ones kindred are not always to be accounted ones
friends, though in our Language they be ſynonymous terms,
There is a friend that ſticketh cloſer then a brother.

76. One God no more, but friends good ſtore.

76. Ec N N D,,joZ Toardi, Den, Deus, ſed plures
amici parandi.

77. Where ever you ſee your friend, ruſt Jour
[

ctr,
78. A friend 5s never known till one have need.
71. Amicus certain re iucerta cernitur, Cic, ex Ennio.
Scilicet as fulvum ſpectatur in ignibus aurum,
Tempore fic duro eſt nſpicients fides, Ovid.
Ls Kaxts — reh . Friends ſtand

79. What was good, the Frier never loy'd.
80. When the Frier's beaten, then comes James.
S. 86.

do. Merd Toy ινν, i GVUpRANiC, u. D. 14.

800

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Proverbial Sentences. 95

The Frier preach* againſt ſtealing, when he

had a pudding in his ſleeve,
. $1. To fright a bird's not the way to catch her.
then | 82. The frog cannot out of her bog.
Froſt and fraud both end in foul, A ſaying
ever ordinary in the mouth of Sr Thomas E ger-
ton Lord Chancellour.

. # $3. Take away fwel , take away flame.
mes $3. Remove the tale-bearer, and contention ceaſeth,

84. The furtheſt way about's the neareſt way
home,

$4. What is gained in the ſhortneſs, may be loſt in the
goodneſs of the way. Compendia plerunque ſunt diſpendia.

85. Fields have eyes and woods have ears, Bois
ont oreilles & champs ocillets, Gall.
a Some hear and ſee him, whom he heareth and
ſeeth nor.
tr For fields have eyes, and woods have cars
ye wot, Heywood,

G,

5 I, Ouch a galled horſe on the back, and he'll
kick, | or wince. ] H. 62.

2. Try your chill in galt firſt, and then in gold.

2. In Care periculum, ſubaudi fac. Cares olim motati ſunt,
qn0d primi vitam mercede locabaumt, They were the firſt mer-
cenary ſouldiers. Practiſe new and doubtful experiments in cheap
commodities, or upon things of ſmall value *

3. You

96 Proverbial Sentences,

3. Youmay gepe long enough, e*re a bird fall in
your mouth,
4. He that gapeth until he be fed, well may he
Cape until be be dead.
5. No gaping againſt an oven.
6. Make nota gauntlet of a hedging glove,
7. What's a Gentleman but his pleaſure.
8. A Gentleman without living, is like a pudding
without ſewer. *
Gentry ſent to market, will not buy one buſhel
of corn.
Centility without ability, is worſe then plain
beggery.
9. Giff gaff was a good man, but he is ſoon weary.
9. Giffe gaffe is one good turn for another,

10, Look not a gift horſe inthe mouth.

10. It ſeems this was a Latine Proverb in Hieroms time,
Eraſmus quotes it out of his preface to his commentaries on the
epiſtle to the Epheſian!, Noli (ut vulgare off proverbium)
equi dentes inſpicere domati. A caval donato non guardar in
bocca. Ital. A cheval donne il ne faut pas regarder aux
dens. Gall, It is alſo in other modern Languages.

11, Giving much to the poor, doth increaſe 4a mant

ſtore.

12, Give a thing and take a thing, &c.

12, Plato mentions this as a childrens Proverb in his
time. Tor ces Nhe 42aiesors ux bi, which with
us alſo continues a Proverb among children to this day.

73. Better fill a g/uttons belly then his eye.

3. Les yeux plus grands que la pance, Gall,

14. Man

Proverbial Sentences, 97

: 14. Man doth what he can , and God what
he will.
| 15. Wen God Wills, all winds bring rain,

15. Deus undecunque jnvat madd propitins. Eraſ.
16. God ſends corn, and the Devil marres ths

ack.
17. God ſends cold after clothes.

17. After clothes, i. e. according to peoples clothes. Dieu
| donne le froid ſelon le drap. Gall,

| God ſends meat, &c. v. cooks,

18, Not God above, gets all mens love.

18. O dp 624549 Joy mm; dee u dike
wv. Theogn,

1 9. What God will, no froſt can kill. ;
20. Gold goes in at any gate except heavens.

20. Philip Alexanders father was reported to ſay, that he
did not doubt to take any caſtle or citadel 3 let the aſcent
be never ſo ſteep and difficult if he could but driye up an
aſſe laden with gold to the gate.

21, Tell me with whom thou goeſt, And I'll
tell thee what thou doeft.
22, All is not gold that gliſters,

22, Tour ce qui luit n' eſt pas or. Ga. Non è opo tug-
to quel che luce. Ital. 0

23. A man may buy gold too dear.
24. Though good be good, yer better is better,
or better carries it.

H 25. A

98 Proverbial Sentences,”

25. A good man can no more harmthena ſheep,
26. Ill gotten goods , ſeldom proſper. D. 31.

26. Della robba di mal acquiſta non ſe ne vede allegrez-
za, Ital, And, Vien preſto conſumato I ingiuſtamente ac-
quiſtato. De mal è venu l agneau & à mal retourne le
peau. Gall, To naught it goes that came from naught.
Kev, NSG is” aTyony. Heſiod. Mala Incra aqualia da-
muis, Male parta male dilabuutur and, De male quaſutts
vix gaudet tertius haves, Juven.

27. That that's good ſawce fora gooſe, is good
for a gander,
27. This is a womans Proverb,

28. As deep drinkgth the gooſe, as the gander.
Gooſe, and gander and goſling are three
ſounds, but one thing.
29. A Geſoawk beats not at a bunting.

29. Aquila non capit mu{cas,

30. Grace will laſt, favour will blaſt.
31. While the graſs grows, the ſteed ſtarves.

31. Caval non marire, che herba de yenire. Ital.

2. Great. gifts are from great men.
Agreat, &c, v. head,
33. The Cuil comes againſt the rain.

Proverbigl - Sentences,

H,
bo H Ackyey miſtreſs hackney maid,

rt. Oi 5 Navan x; ,. Cie, Epiß.
Att. 5. Qualis hera tales pediſſeque. C T4; M, as N
vis WH4s usyau, Catula deminam imitantur, Videas autem (in
quit Eraſmus) & Melitzas , opmlentarum mulierum delicias y
faſtum, laſciviam rothmque fere morum imaginem reddere.

2. Had I fiſh is good without muſtard,
Halfan acre is good land,
3. No halting before a cripple.

3. Fot fear of being detected. Il ne faut pas clocher devant
un boiteux, Gall,

Half an egg, &c. v. egg.
Half a loaf, v. loaf,
4. Help handt, for I have no lands.
5. He is handſome that handſome doth.
Hang him, &c. v. ſhifts, :
6. It's better to be happy then wile.

6. E meglio eſſer fortunato che ſav io. Ital. Guta fortane
pre dolio ſabientiæ. Micux vaut une once de fortune qu* une
fibre de ſageſſe, Gall. An ounce of good fortune is better
then a pound of wiſdom, v. D. 22.

7. Happyishe whoſe friends were born before
im.
7. i. , Who has rem now labore parandam ſed relitam.

H 2 8, Happy

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100 Proverbial Sentences,
8. Happy isthe child whoſe father went to the

Devil.

$. For commonly they who firſt raiſe great eſtates, do
it either by uſury and extortion, or by fraud and cozening,
or by flattery and miniſtring to other mens vices.

9. Some have the hap, ſome Hick i*ch* gap.

10. Hap, and half penny goods enough, i. e.
luck is enough, though a man hath not a
penny left him.

11. Set hard heart againſt hard hap.

11. Tu ne cede malis, fed contra audentior ito.

12. Hard with hard makes not the ſtone wall.

12. Duro con duro non fa mai buon muto. ral. Though
1 have ſeen at Ariminum in Italy an ancient Roman bridge
made of hewn ſtone laid together without any morter or
cement.

13. Hard fare makes hungry bellies.
It's a hard winter, &c. v. winter.
It's a hard battel, &c. v. batyel.

14. Where we leaſt think, there goeth the hare
away.

15. Harm watch, harm catch,

King Harry lov'd a man, s.e. valiant men\

love ſuch as are ſo, hate cowards.

16. Moſt hafte worſt ſpeed.

16. Come s ha fretta non ſi fa mai niente che ſtia bene, Ital.
Qui trop ſe haſte en cheminent, en beau chemin ſe fourvoye
— ** He that walks too haſtily, ones —_— in

in way, i mimis propere minis proſpere, & Nimium
4 properans ſerii.s abſolvis, & Canis feſtinans — parit catu-

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Proverbial Sentences. 101

los. & Feſtina leut. Tarry a little that we may make an
end the ſooner, was a ſaying of $* Amias Paulet.

| 17. Haſte makes waſte,
Haſty climbers, &c. v. climbers.
18. A haſty man never wants woe, |
Haſty people will never make good |
midwives. |
19. No haſte to hang true men,
It's good to have a hatch before the door.
20, High flying hawks are fit for Princes,
21. Make hay while the ſun ſhines. |
22, A great head and a little wit.
22, This is only for the clinch ſake become a Proverb,

for certainly the greater, the more brains 3 and the more
| brains, the more wit, if rightly conformed.

23. Better be the head of a pike, then the tail
of a ſturgeon,

24. Better be the head of a dog, then the tail
of alion,

25. Better be the head of an aſſe, then the tail
of a horſe.

26. Better be the head of the yeomanry , then

/ the tail of the gentry.

23. E meglio effer teſta di luecio che coda di ſturione.
Ital, Theſe four Proverbs have all the ſame ſenſe, viz, Men
| love priority and prece „ had rather govern then be ru-

y led, command then obey , lead then be le; in an
| inferiour rank and quality, p
27. He that hath no head needs no hat.
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102 Proverbial Sentences.
A mans not ſo ſoon healed as hurt.
28. The more you heap, the worſe you cheap.

28, The more you rake and ſcrape, the worſe ſucceſs you
have: or the more buſie you are and ſtir you keep, the leſs
you gain,

29. He that hears much and ſpeaks not all, ſhall
be welcowe both in bower and hall.
30. Where the hedge is loweſt, commonly men
leap over.

30. Chaſcun joue au Roy deſpouille. Gall. They that
are down ſhall be trampled on.

31, Take heed isa good read, T, 2,

31, Abundans cautela non aocet.

32. One pair of heels is worth two pair of hands.

32. The French ſay, Qui n' a cocur ait jambes, He that
hathno heart, let him have heels.

33. They that be in hell, think there's no better
heaven.
34. Every herring muſt hang by its own gull.
34+ Every rub muſt ſtand upon its own bottom, Every man
muſt give an account for himſelf. N

35. Look not too ligb, leſt a chip fall in thine
eye.
35. Noli altum ſapere.

36. The higher ſtanding the lower fall. ;
36, Tollwntuy in altum, wt lapſu graviore rmant. Claudian.

The higher floud always the lower ebb, .
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37. Up the hill favour me, do hun the hill beware
thee.

38. Every man for him{{/f, and God for us all.
38. Ogni un per ſe & Dio per tutti, La.

39. Hide zothing from thy miniſter, Phy ſitian and
Lawyer.

39. He that doth fo, doth it ro his own harm or loſs wrong
ing thereby either his ſoul, body or eſtate.

40. The higheſt tree hath the greateſt fall.

40. Celſe graviore caſu decidunt tin cu. Horat.

A high bailding, a lov foundation, v.
Building,
41. Ne'reloſe a hog for a half-penny-worth of
tarre,

41. A man may ſpare in an ill time: as ſame who will ra-
ther die, then ſpend ten groars in phyſick,

42. A man may hold his tongue in an ill time.

42, Amyclas filentium perdidit It's a known ſtory , that the
Amycleans having been oft friglted and diſquieted with vain
reports of the enemies coming, made a law that no man
ſhould bring or tell any ſuch news. Whercupon it hapned,
that when the enemies did come indeed, they were ſurpriſed
and taken. There is a time to ſpeak as well as to be ſilent.

43. Home is home though it be never ſo homely.

43. OI oiaG, i ase. becauſe there we
have greateſt freedome. v. Eraſ.

44. An honefs mans word is as good as his bond.
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104 Proverbial Sentences,
45. An honey tongue a heart of gall.
46. Honour change manners,

46. Honores mutant mores, As poverty depteſſeth and de-
baſeth a mans mind. So great place and eſtate advance and
enlarge it: but many times corrupt and puff it up,

47. Where honour ceaſeth , there knowledge de-
creaſeth, .

47. Honos alit artet. Luis enim virtutem amplellitur ip-
ſam præmia ſi tollas, On the other fide.
Sint Mecanates non deer umt Flacce marones ;
Virgiltimque tibi vel tua rura dabunt.

48. A hook well laſt to catch a Salmon,
48. Il faut perdre un yeron pour peſcher un Saulmon. Gall,

49. If it were not for hope, the heart would
break,
49. Spet alunt exules, Spes ſervat afflifdor. *Avip dT) 3560
ow/eTaU Tots AMT,
Spes boua dat vires, animum quo que (pes boya firmat.
Vivere ſpe vidi qui moriturus erat.

50. Hope well and have well.
51, You can't make a horn of a pigs tail,

51. Parallel hereto is that of Apofolins, "Ops $29 Na-
s ei. An aflestail will net make a ſieve. Ex quovis lig-
we non fit Mercuring,

52. Who hath horxs in's boſom, let him not
put them on his head,

52, Let a man hide his ſhame, nor publiſh it.
53. It's

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53. It's a good horſe that never ſtumbles: anda
good wife that never grumbles.

$3. Ua ya 6 bon cheval qui ne bronche. Gall, Ruandsq;
bonus dor mit at Homerus,

54. A good horſe often wants a good ſpur.

55. It's an ill horſe will not carry his own pro-
vender.

36. 1t's an hill horſe can xeither winny nir wag bis
rail. :

57. A man may leada horſe to the water, but he
can not make him drink unleſs he will,

57. On ne fait boire al. Asne quand il ne veut. Gal. &
On a beau mener le boeuf al” eaus? il n* a ſoif, Gall. In vain
do you lead the ox to the water, if he be not thirſty,

58. Areſtyhorſe muſt have a ſharp ſpur.
A ſcal'd horſe is good, &c, v. ſcald.
59. The common horle it worſt Hod.
A ſhorr horſe, &c. v. ſhort.
60. The beſt horſe needs breaking, and the apteſt
child needs teaching,
Where the hoyſe lies down, there ſome hair
will be found. Fullers Forth.
The horſe that's next the mill, &c. v. mill.
G1. A gall'd horſe will not endure the comb. G. 1.
Touch a gall'd horſe, &c. v. gall'd.
61. Il tignoſo non ama il pettine. Ital, Jamais tigneux n*

aime le pigne. Gall. & Cheval roigneux n a cure qu on!

62. Tea may kyow the horſe by bis harneſs.
, a 63. The

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106 Proverbial Sentences.
63. The horſe that draws his halter, is not quite
eſcaped.
63. Non è ſcappato chi ſtraſcina la carena dietro, Ital, II
n' eſt pas elchappec qui traine ſon lien. Gall,

64. Hethat hires the horſe muſt ride before,
65. The fairer the hoſteſs the fouler the reckoning,

65. Belle hoſteſſe c* eſt un mal pour la bourſe, Gall,

66. Hot /, hot ſwallow.

67. Better ones houſe too little one day, then too
big all the year after.

When thy neighbours houſe is on fire, beware
of thine own.

68, Tua res agitur paries cum proximus ardet.

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69. A mans hoſe is his caſtle.
69. This is a kind of law Proverb, Jura publica favent pri-

vatos dom.

70. He that builds a houſe by the high-way ſide, it
either too high or too low,

70. Chi fabrica la caſa in piazza, 6 che è troppo alta 6 trop-
po baſſa. Ital.

71. He that buyes a houſe ready wrought, hath
many a pin and nail for noug ht.

71. Il faut acheter maiſon fait & femme à faire. Gall. A
houſe ready made and a wife to make, Hence we ſay, Fools
build houſes and wiſe men buy them.

72. When a mans houſe burns, it's not good playing
at cheſs,

73. A

Proverbial Sentences 107
73. A man may love his hon ſe well, and yet not
ride on the ridge,

73. A man may love his children and relations well, and yet
not cocker them, or be fooliſhly fond and indulgent to them.

74. Huge winds blow on high hills,

74. Terii unique ſummos fulmina montes, Horat.

75. Hanger is the beſt ſawce.

75. Appetito non vuol ſalſa, Hal. II n' y a ſaulce que
d' appetit. Gall, This Proverb is reckoned among the A-
phoriſms of Socrates , 3 cibi condimentum fame fitis
potiis, Cic. lib. 2. de fini

76. Hunger will break through ſtone walls.
77. Hungry flies bite ſore,
77. The fable.

Hungry dogs, &c. v. dogs.
78. They muſt hunger in froſt that will not work.
in heat.
A hungry horſe makes a clean manger.
79. Hunger makes hard bones ſweet beans.

79. Eraſmus relates as a common Proverb (among the
Dutch 1 ſuppoſe) Hunger makes raw beans relliſh well or taſte
of Sugar, Manet halic qus vulge tritum proverbium, Tamem
efficere ut crude etiam faba ſaccharum ſapiant. Darius in his
flight drinking puddle water defiled with dead carcaſſes, is te-
ported to have ſaid, that he never drank any thing that was
more pleaſant, for ſaith the ſtory, Neque enim firiens wquam
biberat : he never had drank thirſty, The full ſtomack loatheth

the honey- comb, but to the hungry, every bitter thing is
ſweet. Prov,

1. Every

108 Proverbial Sentences,

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1. Ever, pack muſt have his Gill,

1, Chaſcun demande fa forte, Ga. Like will to like. It
ought to be written Fyll, for it ſeems to be a nickname for
Falia or Juliana.

2, A good Jack makes a good Gill.

2. Bonus dux lomum reddit comitem, Infteriours imitate the
manners of ſuperiours ; ſubjects of their Princes, ſervants of
their maſters, children of their parents, wives of their buſ.
bands, Precepta ducunt, exempla trabumt.

3. Pack would be a gentleman, if he could but
ſpeak French,

2. This was a Proverb, when the gentry brought up their
children to ſpeak French, After the conqueſt , the firlt kings
endeayoured to aboliſh the Zz/iþ Language, and introduce
the French.

4. More to do with one Zack an apes, then all the
bears.

5. 7ack would wipe his noſe if he had it.

6. Pack ſprat would teach his Grandame.

6. Ante barbam doces ſen's

7. Better to be iale, then not well occupied.

7. Praſtat otio ſum eſſe quim uibil agere. Plin. epiſt. Bet-
ter be idle then do that which is to no purpoſe, or as good
2s nothing 3 much more then that which is evil,

8. Jale

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Proverbjal Sentences, 109
8. Jale folks lack no excuſes.

$. Treſca con i fanti & laſcia ſtar i ſanti. Dal. Play win
children, and let the ſaints alone.

9. No jeſting with edge tools,
10. When the demand is à jeſt, the fitteſt anſwer i
a ſcoff.
11, Better loſe a jeſt then a friend.
Illgotten goods, &c. v. goods.
12. Ii news comes apace.
13. 14 weeds grow apace.

13, Mauvaiſe herbe croiſt tous jours, Gall. Pazzi creſ-
cond ſenza in affiargli. ral. Fools grow without watering.
A mauyais chien la queiie luy vient. Gall,

14. Iwill never ſaid well.
15. An inch breaks no ſquares.
15, Pour un petit n' avant n' arriore, Gall.

16. An inch in a miſs is as good as an ell.

17. one's as good as my Lady in the dark.

17. Au dpdiwT@ ywn mor n awry. Eraſmas
| draws this to another ſenſe, viz. There is no woman chaſt
where there is no witneſs: but I think he miſtakes the intent
of it, which is the ſame with ours, When candles ate out all
cats are gray.

18. No joy without annoy,

f 13. Extrema gaudii ſuctus occupat. & Ta- aded nulla ef
ſmcera voluptas, Sollicit i que aliquid latis intervenit.

19. Strike while the iron is hot.

19. Infin che il ferro è caldo biſogna battetlo. [ral L.
it

x'0 Proverbial Sentences,

fait bon battre le fer tandis qu” il eſt chaud, Gall, People
muſt then be plied when they are in a good humour or
mood,

20. Ne that hath many iron in the fire, ſome of
them will cool.
21. I luck is worſe then found money.

K.
* K. me and l' ka thee.

1. Da mihi mutuwm t:/timoninm, Cic, orat, pro Flacco,
Lend me an oath or teſtimony, Swear for me and I'll do as
much for you, Or claw me and I'll claw you. Commend
me and 1'll commend you. & Pro Delo Calauriam. Neptune
changed with Latowa Delos for Calawria,

2. Keep ſome till furthermore come,
3. The kertle calls the pot black-a—-

3. La padella due al pai uolo vati in la, che tu mi non
tinga. Ital.

All the keys hang not at one mans girdle.
4. A piece of a Kid's worth two of a cat.
Who was A by a cannon bullet, was
curſt in his mothers belly,
5. The kl» call's the oven burnt-houſe.
It's good to be near of Ai to an eſtate.
6. Kiſſing goes by favour,
The Kings cheeſe goes half away in parings.
7. Better A a knave then be troubled with him.
8. He that & ſſeth his wife in the market.place,
ſhall have enough to teach him.

If

Proverbial Sentences, 111

ople If you can ks/s the miſtreſs, never kiſs the
& maid,
9. To kiſs amans wife or wipe his knife, is but
of 2 thankleſs office.

Many ki/s the child for the nurſes ſake.
10. A carrion Ert e will never make good hawk.
10, On ne ſe auroit faire d' une buſe un eſpreuvier. Gall.

Many kinsfolks, &c. v. friends.
11. Knaves and fools divide the world.
12. When knaves fall out, true men come by
0, their goods.

— 12, Les larrons s* entrebatent, les larcins ſe deſcouvtent ·
Gall. When High-way men fall out, robberies are dif

ne
covered.

13, The more kxnave the better luck.
1 14. Two cunning laue need no broker: or
a cunning knave, &c. 6

4 15. It's as hard to pleaſe a knave as 4 Knight.
16. They that know one another ſalnte afar off.
17. Where the knots: looſe, the ſtring ſlippeth.

. 18, It is better to Hit then bloſſome.

L.

o. N unhappy /ad may make a good man.
C.48.
o. A ragged colt, &c.

112 Proverbial Sentences,
1. He that hath ſome land muſt have ſome labour.

1. No ſweet without ſome ſwear, without pains no gains,

2. One leg of a /ark 's worth the whole body of
a kite,

3. He that comes laſt makes all faſt. -

3. Le dernier ferme la porte, ou la laiſſe ouvette. Gall,

4. Better late then never.
4. Il vaut mieux tard que jamais. Gall.

5. It's never too late to repent.
5. Nung uam ſera e, &c.

6. Let them laugh that win.

6, Merchand qui perd ne peut rive. Gall. The merchant
that loſes cannot laugh. Give loſets leave to ſpeak, and I ſay,
Give winners leave to laugh, for if, you do not, they'll take it.

7. He that buyes lawn before he can fold it, ſhall
repent him before he have ſold it.

8. They that make laws muſt not break, them,

8. Patere legem quam ipſe tuliſti.
In commune jubes ſiq ud censerve tenendum,
Primus juſſa ſubi, tunc obſervantior æqui.
Fit populus, nec ferre vetat cum viderit ipſum,

Autorem parere ſibi. Claudian,

9. Never too old to learn.
9. Nulla ata; ad perdiſcendum ſera eft, Ambrol.

10. The ſeaſt boy always carries the greateſt fiddle,
10. All lay load upon thoſe that axe the leaſt able to or

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Proverbial Sentences, 113

jt, For they that are leaſt able to bear, are leaſt roreſiſt the im»
polirion of the burden.

11. Better leave then lack.

12. Leave is light.

12. It's an eaſie matter to ask leave, but the expence of a
little breath , and therefore ſervants and ſuch as are under

command are much to blame, when t will do, or negle&
to do what they ought not or ought, — * asking it.

of

13, While the leg Warmeth, the boot harmeth.
1 4. He that doth lend will looſe his friend.

14. Quipreſte al amis perd au double. Gall. He that lends
to his friend, looſeth double, i. e. both money and friend.

15. Shew mea /iar, and ru ew you a thief.
e 16. Life is ſweet. T7

, 17. Whilethere's /iferliere*s hope.

t. 17. Infin que wd fiato v Tperanza, Ital. grote dum
anima , ſpes eff. Tull. ad Attic. 'Exmdis iv C, &-

1 Al 5 Neben. When all diſeaſes fled out of Pando»

ra's box, hope remained there till.

18, Life lieh not in living, but in liking.

18, Martial {aich, Now oft vivere, ſed valere vita.

19. Light gains make a heavy purſe.

19, Le petit gain remplit la bourſe, Gall. They that (ell for
ſmall profit, vend more commodities and makequick returns,
ſo that to invert the Proverb, What they looſe in the hundred
hey gain in the councy. Whereas they who ſell dear , fell
little and many times loſe a good part of their wares, cither

ſpoil'd or grown out of uſe and faſhion by long keeping.

. I 20, Light

114 Proverbial Sentences,

20. Light burdens far heavy.
20, Petit fardeau poiſe à la longue, or, Petite choſe de lo-
ing poiſe, Gall.

21. Light cheap lither yield.
24, That that coſts little, will do little ſervicez for commonly
the beſt is beſt cheap.

22. Lichtly come lightly go.
23. The /;ght is naught for ſore eyes,
23, Al ceil malade le lumiere nuit, Gall. He that doth e-
vil hateth the light, &c.

24. There's lightning ligbely before thunder.
25. A heavy purſe makes a light heart.
26. The lions not half ſo fierce as he is painted.
26. Minnunt preſemtia famam, is a true rule, Things are
repreſented at a di » much to their advantage beyond
— juſt proportion and merit. Fame is a magnifying
8 0

27. Like will no like (as the Devil ſaid to the
collier.) B. 39.
27. Ogni mile appetiſie il ſuo ſimile, al. Chaſcun cher-
che ſon ſemblable, or, demande ſa ſotte, Gall, Ne eadem
hic repetamat, v. B. 39,

28. Like lips like lettuce.

28. Similer habent labra laftacas, A thiſtle is a ſallet fir for an
aſſes mouth, We uſe when we would Ggnifie that, things pu
pen to people which are ſuitable ro them, or which
ſerve : as when a dull ſcholar happens to a ſtupid or —
maſter 3 u froward wife to a peeviſh husband, &c. Dignum

patolli operculum. Like pricit, like people, and on the con.
trary,

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rrary. Theſe Provetbs ate always taken in the worſe

29. Like ſaint bike offering.

30. Like carpenter like chips.

31. Trim tram, like maſter like man.
31. Quel maiſtre tel valet, Gall,

32. A little pot's ſoon hot.
32, Little pegſons are commonly cholerick,

33. Many littles make a mickle,
33. B gay x4y H &Þh dwnrys r- xl
Sdua 943" ede, mize wy wie x; 79 e. Nad.
Add. parum parvo mag uu acer uns erit,
De petit vient on au grand, and, Les petits ruiſſeaux ſont les
grands rivieres, Gall. All ekes, &c. The number
1s made up of unites 3 and all the water of the ſea, of drops,

34. Little pitchers have cars.

34. Ce que l' enfant oir au fouyer, eſt bien coſt cogneu juſ-
ques au Monſtier. That which the child hears by rhe fire,
is ofren known as far as Adonſtier, a Town in Sevey, Sorhar
it ſeems they have long , as well as wide cars. And
therefore (as Fwornal well 64) Maxima debetur prero reves

"'

rent,

Little fuel, &c. v. fuel,

35. Little ſaid ſoon amended.
36. Little ſtrokes fell great oaks,
4 Multis idibus dejiciray quercus. Many ſtrokes fell, £
Aſſiduity overcomes all difficulcy. V+ xg D”, duCeor Yluror),
Minatula pluvia imbrem _ Aſſidua ſtills ſaaum excavar,
2 22

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116 Proverbial Sentences,
Quid magis eff dnrum ſaxo ? quid mollius unti ?
Dura tamen molli ſaxa cavantur aqui, Ovid.
Annu!us in digito ſubter tenuatur habends ;
Stillicidi caſus lapidem cavat, uncus aratri
Ferrens octculte decreſcit vomer in arvis, Lucrer,
Pliny reports, that there are to be found flints worn by the
feet of Piſmires, Which is not altogether unlikely; for the
Hotſe ants eſpecially, 1 have obſerved to have their rodes or
foot-paths ſo worn by their travelling, that they may euſi-
ly be obſerved,

37. A little good is ſoon ſpent,

38. A little ſtream drives a light mill.

39. For a little land, take a fool by the hand.

39, Gratifie a fool, obſerve him, humour him if you are
in hope to get by him.

40. Every thing would live.
41. They that /ive longeſt, muſt go furtheſt for
wood

42. As bong lives a merry heart as a ſad.
43. One may live and learn.
43. Non fi finiſce mai d' imparare, Ital. Tyggoxu d d-

A didecriurr@® , A famous ſaying of Solon,
Diſcenti aſſidu# multa ſenefta venit.

And well might he ſay ſo, for Ars longa vita brevis, As Hip
*

pocrates begins his A photiſms.

44. They that live longeſt muſt die at laſt,
45. Alllay load on the willing horſe.

45. On touche tous jours ſurle cheyal qui tire, Gall, The
horſe that draws is moſt whipt.

46. Halfa lf is better then no bread.
47. It's

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' Proverbial Sentences,

47. It's a long run that never turns,
The longeſt day, &c. v. day.
48. Long lookt for comes at laſt,
49. Lok to the main chance,
50, Lock before you leap.
Look not too high, &c. v. high.
Where the knot is /oo/e, &c. v. knot.
51, No great /o/s, but ſome ſmall profit.
52. It's not loſt that comes at laſt.
All is nat leſt that is in danger.
52- As for inſtance, he whoſe ſheep die of the rot, ſayes
the skins and wooll. |

53. In love is no lack.” '
He loves mutton well, &c. v. mutton,
Love me, &c. v. dog.
He loves roaſtmeat, &c. v. roaſtmear.
Love thy neighbour, but pull not down
thy hedge
54, Better a /oxſe i th pot then no fleſh at all.
54+ The $corch Proverb ſaith a mouſe, which is herter ſence,
for a mouſe is fleſh and edible.

55. Lowly fit richly warm.
55. A mean condition is both more ſafe and more comfor-
table, then a high eſtate,

W hat is worſe then illlacł ?
56. Give a man lack, and throw him into the fea,
The honeſter man, y worſe lac v. honeſter.
57. Learnto lick betimes, you know not whoſe
tail you may go by.
13 38. Thieves

118

Froverlial Sentences,

58. Thieves and rogues have the beſt lack, if
they do but ſcape hanging,

M,

2 ne*re be nad, you are of ſo many
minds.

1. There are more naid then maukin.
Maids ſay nay and take.
Look to the main, &c. b. look.

2. Make much of one, good men are ſcatce;

3. Malice is mindful.
Man propoſes, God diſpoſes.

Homme propoſe, mais Dien diſpoſe., Gal, Humana con-

filia divinitns gubernantur.
To day a man, &c. v. day.
Manners make à man, quoth William of
Wickham,

4. He that's mar'd with boys and hors'd with
colts, ſhall have tis meat eaten and his
work undone, *

5. Many hands make light Cor quick] work.

5. Adultorum manibis grande leuatur onus,

Batoyor N ipyor Aαν0eh . Homer, Maus vir uullus vir.
Mas jay 41035 de, way. Emripid.

He that hath many irons, &c. v. irons,

6. May ſands will fink a ſhip.

d. . L. 33, and 36. We muſt have acare of little things,
leſt by degrees we fall into great inconveniences. A little leak
neglected, in time will ſink a ſhip, e 1

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Many littles, &c. v. little.
7. So many men ſo many minds.

5, Tante teſte ranti cervelli, Ital. Autant de teſtes autant
& opinions, Gall, Quot homines tot ſemtemtia, Terent.

8. You may know by the marker-folks , how the

market goes.
9. Forſake not the marker for the toll.

No man makes haſte to the marłet, where
there's nothing to be bought but blows.

10. Ihe maſters eye makes the e fat,

10. L' occhio del padrone ingraſſa il cavallo, hal, L' oeil
du maiſtre engraifle lo cheval, Gall. K 73 Hie u
Alcue amip2tryus oi ariyer, O f igen 1

aig lu male, O Ts Jdrarbre ze Aus; Len,
O 8 MiCus ine, mic war dels; T6 T7 Jeb
Ts In Len. arp Orca. 2, The anſwers of Per ſes and
Li are worth obſe The former being asked,
what was the beſt thing to a horſe fat, anſwered the
maſters eye: the other being demanded what was the beſt
manure, anſwered the maſters footſteps. Not impertinent to
this purpoſe, is that ſtory related by Gelliws, A fat man ri-
ding upon a lean horſe asked, bow it came to paſs, that
kimi was ſo far, and his horſe ſo lean, He anſwered be-
cauſe I feed my ſelf , but my ſeryanr my horſe,

Who that may not as he will, &c, v. will.
11, Two ill meals make the third a glutton.
12, Meaſure isa treaſure,
13. After meat comes muſtard.
13. When there is no more uſe of it.

14. Meat is much, but manners is more,
I 4 15, Much

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120 rroverbia Sentences,
15. Much meat much maladies,

15 Surfetting and diſeaſes often attend full tables. Our nation
in former time, hath been noted for exceſs in cating, and it
was almoſt grown a Proyerb , That Engliſh .
graves with their teeth.

ig their

16. Meat and mattens hinder no mans journey.
16, In other words, Prayers and provender, &c,

17, He that will medale with all things, may go
ſhooe the goſlins.

18. Of little medling comes great eaſe.

19. It's merry in the hall when beards wag all.

19, When all are eating, feaſting or making good chear*
By the way we may note that this word chear , which is par»
ticularly wich us applied to meats and drinks, ſeems to be de-
rived from the Greek word 329. ſignifying joy. As it doth
alſo with us in thoſe words cheatly and cheatful.

20, Bemerry and wile.
21, The more the merrier, the fewer the better
chear. |
As long lives a merry, &c. v. lives.
Can Jack an apes be merry, &c, v. clog,
Who doth ſing ſo merry a note, &c. v. ſing.
22. Mitkle ado and little help.
23. Might overcomes right,
24, No mill no mea).
24. O odor winery dagire dye. Qui fagit molam
fugit farinam. Mf wel Wim, wars warma. He that
would have — muſt have bees. Eraſm i ſaith, they com-

monly ſay, He that would have 2 muſt endure the cackling
of hens. It is I ſuppoſe a Pusch Proveib.

25, Much

mea wa TT 2 <4 Las

Mk mx « ac Duc

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Proverbial Sentences, 121

25. Much water goes by the mill, the miller
knows not of,
:5 Aſſabacqua paſſa per il molino che il molinaionon vede, ir.

26. In vain doth the wil clack , if the miller his
hearing lack.

27. Every miller draws water to his o mill.
27. Amener eau au moulin,or, Tirercau en ſon moulin,Gall.

28. The horſe next the mill, carries all the griſt.

29. My mind to me a kingdom is.

30. 1 come by the pound, and go away

by the ounce.

31, Better a miſchzef, then an inconvenience,

31. That is, bettet a preſent miſchief that is ſoon over, then
a conſtant grief and diſturbance, Not much unlike to that,
Better eye out, then always aking. The French. have a Pro-
verb in ſence, contrary to this, II faut laifſer ſon enfant mor-
veux plus toſt que loy atracher lenez, Better let ones child be
ſnotty then pluck his noſe off, Better endure ſome ſmall
inconyenience, then remove i with a great miſchief.

. . There's no feaſt to the miſers, v. feaſt.

32. Mit fortunes ſeldom come alone.
32. The French ſay, Malheur ne vient jamais ſeul. One misfor-
rune never came alone. & Aptes perdre perd on bien When one
begins once to looſe, one never makes an end. & Un mal attire

autre. One miſchief draws on another, or one miſchief falls up-
on the neck of another. Fortune wulli ebeſſe contenta ef ſemel.

33. Miſreckoning s no payment,

34. Mi ſunder ſtanding brings lies to town.

34+ This is a good obſervation, lies and falſe *
m

122 Proverbial Sentences.
molt part from miſtake and mi ing. The fiſt hearer
miſtakes the firſt reporter, in ſome ecixcumſtance or

articular ; the ſecond him, and ſoar laſt the truth is loſt, and a
ie paſſes curranc,

35. It's money makes the mare to go.
35, Pecunia obediunt omyia. ' Agyuptais Ao alot; A-
X, bc-

36. Beauty is potent, but money is omnipotent.
36. Amour fait beaucoup, mais fair tout. & Amour
fait rage, mais argent fait marriage, Gal.

37. God makes, and apparel ſhapes, but money
makes the man.

37. Pecunia vir. XpiuaTe drip. Tanti quantum habeas

F, Horst. 4

38. Tell money after your own father.

$9. Do 4s = moſt de, and feweſt will ſpeak, evil
of thee.

40. * — *s not ſeen where the ſun ſhines.

41. A mote may choke 4 man,

42. A child may have too much of his morhers

bleſſing.

42. Mothers are oftentimes tos tender and fond of their
children. Who are ruined and ſpoiled by their cockering and
indulgence,

43. The mouſe that hath but one hole is eaſily

taken, *
43. Triſto è quel topo, che non ha chꝰ un ſol pertuggio per
varſi, he. La ſoutis qui n' 2 qu une entree eſt inconti on

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happte, Gall. Aus nom uni fidit antro, Good riding at two
— — having two ſtrings to ones bow, This ſentence came
originally from Plautus in Truculewto. v. Braſin, Adag,

A mouſe time may bite in two, &c. v.
time.
44. God never ſends months, but he ſends meat.

„This Proverb is much in the mouth of people :
who get children, but take no care to — 0

45. Much would have more,
„ Multa petentibut die ſamt malta, Horar,
bs — & » & opam furioſa Cypido,
* poſſideavut plur ima plura pet amt.
Sic quibus intumuit ſuffuſa venter ab uada, (Faſt.
Een, ſuwor pore plas fitiuntnr aqua, Ovid.

Men #»#/e as they uſe,
46. When a muſician hath forgot his note, he
makes as though a crum ſtuck in his
„„ es. F |
46. "Amelia AAT AH. When a ſinging - man or muſie
cian is out or at a loſs,to conceal ir he coughes. Bu an dg.
Some ſeeking to hide a ſcape with a coagh, ——
doubly ridiculous,

47. He loves matton well, that dips his bread
in che wooll.

124 Proverbial Sentences,

N,

2 T ones name be up he may lie in
bed.

1, Qui a bruit de fe lever matin peut dormir juſques a
diſner, Gall.

2. He that hath an ill ewe is half hanged.
3. Takeaway my good name and take away my
life.
Near is my petticoat, &c, v. petticoat.
4. Neceſſity hath no law,

4. *Avdlyin α Je, ue rte. La neceſſita non ha
legge, Ital. Ingens telum weceſſitas,

They need much whom nothing will content.
5.. Need makes the old wife trot,

5. Biſogno fa trottar la vecchia, Ital. Beſoign fait vieille
trotrer, Gall. All the ſame, word for word.

6. Need makes the naked man run, Cor the na-
ked quean ſpin. ] |
7. A good neighbour, a good goodmorrow.

7. Qui à bon voiſin 4 bon matin, Gal. Chi ha catt ivo vi-
cino ha il mal matino, Ital. Aliquid mali propter vici uum
malum, Plaut. in Merc, II Nan yeimuy Gary d-
1.905 why" , H Themiſtocles having a farm to
ſell, cauſed rhe crier who proclaimed it, to add that ir had a
good neighbour ; rightly judging that ſuch an adyantage would
make ir more vendible

8. He

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Proverbial Sentences, 123

8. He dwells far from neighbours Cor hath ill
neighbours] that's fam to praiſe himſelf,

. Propris laws ſordet in ore. Let another man praiſe rhee
and not Sins ſe —

own mouth, a ſtranger and not thine own lips.

Here's talk of the Turk and Pope, but it's
my next xeighboxy does me the harm.
g. Toumuſt ark, your neighbour f you ſhall live in
ace,
10. The rough ner 's not the beſt catcher of birds.
21. As good never a whit as never the better.
12. New lords new laws.
12. De nouveau ſeigneur nouvelle meſnie, Gal.

13. A new broom ſweeps clean,
Il news, &c. v. ill.
No penny no, &c. v. penny.
No mill no, &c. v. mill.
No ſilver no, &c. v. ſilver.
No living man all, &c. v. all.
14. One may kyoW by your noſe, what pottage you
love, |
15. Every mans noſe will not make a ſpooing horn,
15, Non cnivis homini contingit adive Corinthum, Horat.

16. Where notbing is a little doth eaſe,
17. Where nothing 's to be had, the King muſt
looſe his right. B, 21. .

17, Le Roy perd ſa ente Quid n a que prendre, Gal.

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kept,

2. He that meaſureth oil, ſhall anoint his fingers,

2. Qui meſure l huile ils” en oingt les mains, Gal.

3. To caſt oil in the fire *s not the way to quench it.
4. Old men are twice children.

4. ale det oi vieh. And that not in reſpeR of
the mind only, bur alſo of the body.

Never too old to learn, v. learn,
J. Olderand wiſer, L. 43.
$. Diſcipulus eſt prioris poſferior dies, Senec. Nunquam i12
. beue ſubuluſtã ratione ad vitam fuit, quin ves, atas,
w/us ſemper aliquid apportet novi, c. Terent.

6. You can't catch o/d birds with chaff.

7. If you would not live to be , you muſt be

hang'd when you are young.

8. Young men may die, 0/4 men muſt,

9. The ed woman would never have look't for
her daughter i*ch* oven, had ſhe not been
there her ſelf.

10. An old ape hath an old eye.

11. An old dog biteth ſore.

11, Un vieil chien jamais ne jappe en vain, Gal.

12, Of

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12. Of young men die many, of old men ſcape not

any.
12. De Giovane ne fnuoiono di molti, di vecchi ne ſcampa
neſſuno, Ital.

13. An old fox need learn no craft.

14. Anold lack asketh much patching.

15. Old men and far travellers, may lie by autho-
rity.

16. Better keep under an old hedge, then creep un-
der a new furze-buſh.

17. As the old cock crows, ſocrows the young
[or ſo the young learns. ]

17. Chi di gallina naſce convien che rozole, Ital.

18. A, old thief deſires a new halter.
19, Old cartel breed not.

19, This I believe is a true obſervation, for probable it is,
that all terreſtrial animals both birds and beaſts have in them
from the beginning, the ſeeds of all thoſe y they aſter-
wards bring forth, which ſeeds, eggs if you ſo pleaſe to call
themz when they are all ſpent , the female becomes eEzre of
ceaſes to breed, In birds theſe ſeeds or eggs are viſible, and
vn Horn hath diſcovered them alſo in x

20. An old dog will learn no tricks.

20, It's all one to phyſick the dead, as to inſtruct old men.
Neuer la g M,? a vodrThiy TwTrhy ih, Stuis mas
tare lingnam is an abſurd impoſſible thing, Old age is intra-
Gable, morofe, flow and forgetful, Tf — aten 4
wrong way at firſt, no hopes then of reducing them. Senex pſt-
tacns wegligit ferulam,

21, That

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21, That that's ove mans meat 's another n
poiſon.

31. L' un mort dont Þ autre vit, Gall.

22, One ſwallow makes not a ſpring, nor one
woodcock a winter.

22, This is an ancient Greek Proverb, Arif, Ethic. Nicom,
lib, 1. Mid jeaidtoy Tape Tour,

23. One ſhoulder of mutton draws down another,

24. One mans breath's another mans death.

25. One man may better ſteal a horſe, then ano-
ther look over the hedge.

25. If we once conceive a good opinion of a man, we will
not be perſwaded he doth any thing amiſs 3 but him whom
we have a prejudice againſt, we are ready to ſuſpect on the
fleighreſt occaſion. Some have this good fortune, to have
all their actions interpreted well, and their faults overlook'tz
others to be ilþ beheld and ſuſpected, eren when they are
innocent. So parents many times ate obſerved to have great

rtialiry towards ſome child; and not to be offended with

—— that, which they would ſeverely puniſh in their other
children,

26. One beats the buſh and another catcheth the

bird,

26, Alii ſementem faciunt, alii metent, This Proverb was
uſed by Hewry the fifth, at the ſiege of Orleans : hen the
citizens beſieged by che Engliſh, would have yielded up the
town to the D. of Burgandy who was in the En + camp,
and not to the King. He ſaid, ſhall I beat the and a-
nother rake rhe bird? no ſuch matter, which words did ſo
offend the Duke, that he made peace with the French, and
withdrew from the Engliſh,

27. Oppor-

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27. Opportunity makes the thief.

27, Occaſio facit furem. Therefore, maſters and ſuperiours
and houſe- keepers ought ro ſecure their moneys and goods
under lock and key 3 that they do not give their ſeryants,
or any others, a temptation to ſteal,

It is eaſie to cry ule at other mens coſts.
28. God ſend us of our own , when rich men go
to dinner,
er. 29. Let _ that owns the cow, take her by the
rail.

no- 30, Tis good chriſtening a mans o child firſt,

_ p.

k'r3
Small pack, &c. v. ſmall,
— 1. A is forgotten, where gain follows,

vith 2. Great pain and little gain, mals 4 man ſoon
her Wear).

3. Without pains, wo gain.
the 3. v. L. 1.

4. Fat paunc het make lean pates, &c.

4. Pi venter non gignit ſemſum tenuem, This Hie*
= rome — fn one of't E as a Greek Proverb,
np, || The Greek is more elegant.

- Hana jap A ure, voor,

nd 5. Patch by patch is good husbandry, but patch

upon patch is plain beggery.
K Patience

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Patience is a flower grows not in every ones
garden,
6. Patience with poverty, is all a poor mans re-
medy,
7. * 1 perforee is -a medicine for a mad
og.
8. Patience is a plaiſter for all ſores.
Pauls will not always ſtand.

9. A fair pawn never ſbam d his maſter.
10. A good pay-miſter needs no ſurety,
Startsnot at aſſurances,
11. He that pays laſt, never pays twice.
He that cannot pay, let him pray.
12. He that would live in peace and reſt , muſt
hear and ſce and ſay the beſt,
12, Oy, voy, & te tais, ſi tu yeux vivre en paix, Gal,
Ode, vede, tace , Sevuoi viyer in pace, Ital.

13. Pen and ink, is wits plougb. 4
14. Penny wiſe and poandtooliſh, v. Phraſ. S. 25
15. A penny in my purſe will bid me drink, whe:
all the friends 1 have will not.
Penny in pocket's a good companion.
16. No penny no pater woſtey. v. S. 48. ä
17. That penny is well ſpent that ſaves a groat.

17. Bonne la maille qui ſauve le denier, Gall, The 5h
penny is well ſpent that ſaves a penny, |

18. Penny and penny laid ap will be many.
14. 4, L. 33. a

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19. Abo will not kgep a penny all never have
many.

20, Near is my petticoat, but nearer is my ſmock.

20. Ma chemiſe m' eſt plus proche que ma robe, Gal

nad Tic pallio propior, AmwTipoy hn 250 wihun, Theocr -

Some friends are nearer to me then others, My parents and

children then my other relations , thoſe then my neigh-

bours, my neig then ſtrangers.

nes

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21. Painted pictures are dead ſpeakers.
22, I'll not buy a pig in a poke.
22, Acheter chat en poche, Gall, To buy a cat ina poke.

23. When the pig 's profer d, hold up the poke.
muſt 23. Never refuſe a good offer,

Gal, 24. He that will not ſtoop for a pia, ſhall never
be worth a point,
25. Hecan ill pipe, that wants his upper lip.

25. Things cannot be done without neceſſary helps and
inſtruments, v. F. 38.

26. No longer pipe no longer dance,v.$.48.F.72.

27. Piſs not againſt the wind.

27. Chi piſcia contra il vento ſi bagna la commiſcia, Hal.

nr, He chat piſſeth againſt the wind, wers his ſhirt, It ĩs to a mans
own prejudice, to ſtrive agaiaſt the ſtream ; he wearies him-

ſelfand looſes ground roo.

Fooliſh pity ſpoilsa city,
28. The pirchey doth not go ſo often to the wa-
ter, but it comes home broken at laſt.
28. Tant ſouyent ya le por à I eau que I' anſe y demeure, Gal,
K 2 Plain

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132 Proverbial Sentences.
Plain dealing is a jewel, but they that uſe
it, die beggers.
29. He had need riſe betimes that would pleaſe
every body.
29, Out 38 6 Z's ud" Lav Mir dvdiiyer, Fri
&72wv, Theogn,

He that would pleaſe all and himſelf too,
undertakes what he cannot do.
30. Pleaſing ware is half ſold.

30. Choſe qui plaiſt eff à demi yendu, Gall, Mercantia
chi piace è meza yendura, Ital.

31. He plays well that wins,

32. As — play for nothing as work for no-
thing. :

33. Ne that plays more then he ſees, forfeits his
eyes to the King.
Short pleaſure, &c. v. ſhort.

34. The plough goes not well, if the ploughman
holds it not.
Standing pools, &c, v. ſtanding,

35. He « poor indeed that can promiſe nothing.

36. Poor folks are glad of pottage.

37. Poor and proud, fie fie.

38. A poor mans table is ſoon ſpread,

39. Poſſeſſion 's eleven points of the law. ne
A cottage in poſſeſſion, &c. v. cottage,

40. The poſtern door makes thief and whore.

40. La porta di dietro è quella che rouina la caſa, Ital,

The back door is that which guines the houſe,

41,

Proverbial Sentences, 133
41, If you drink in your pottage, you'll cough
in your grave.
42. When poverty comes in at the doors, love leaps
1 out at the windows.
his Poverty parteth good fellowſhip.
43. Pour not water ona drown'd —
too, 43. 1. e. Add not affliction to miſery.

t uſe
leaſe

Praiſe a fair day, &c. v. fair.
Praiſe the ſea, &c. v. ſea.

m 44. Prajers and provender hinder no mans
journey.
44. M. 17,
no-

45. Je that would learn to pray, let him go to
ſea.
45. Qi veut apprendre 2 prier, A ille ſouvent ſur la mer, Gall.

46. Pride will have a fall.
Pride feels no cold.

47. Pride goes before, ſhame follows after.

48. Aproud mind and a beggers purſe agree not
well together.

49. As proud come behind as go before.

49. A man may be humble that is in high eſtate, and
people of mean condition may be as proud as the higheſt.

ge. 50. It's good beating proud folks, for they'll not
complain.
Ital # 51. The Prieſt forgets that he was a clerk.
51. Proud upſtarts remember not the meanneſs of their for-
ifi wet condition.
0 K 3 52. H.

134 Proverbial Sentences,
52. Hethat prieth into every cloud, may be ftrick:

en with a thunderbolt.

53. Proffer'd ſervice [and ſo ware] ſtinks.

5 3. Merx ultronea putt, apud Hieronym, Eraſmus ſaith,
Quins vulgo etiam in ore eft, ultro delatum obſequium plerunque
ingratum efſe, So that it ſeemsthis Proverb is in uſe amo
the Dutch too. Merchandiſe offerte eſt a demi vendiie, Gall.
Ware that is proffer'd is ſold for half the worth, or at half the

price,

54. All promiſes are either broken or kept.
54, This isa flam or droll, uſed by them that break their

word,

55. The properer man [and fo the honeſter] the
worſe luck. ,
55. Aux bons meſcher il, Gall, h

56. Pull hair and hair, and yow ll make the carle
bald.

56. Caude pilot equine paulatim vellere, There is 2 nota-
ble ſtory of Sertorius mentioned by Plutarch in his life, He
to perſwade his ſouldiers that counſel was more available then
ſtrength, cauſes two horſes to be brought out, the one poor
and leanz the other ſtrong and having a buſby tail. To the
poor weak horſe he ſets a great, ſtrong, young man.. To
the ſtrong horſe he ſers a little weak fellow, each to pluck
off his horſes tail. This latter pulling the hairs one by one,
in a ſhore ſpace got off the whole rail: whereas the young IF r
man catching all the tail at once in his hands, fell atog- IF i
ing with all bis might, labouring and ſweating to little pur-
poſe; till at laſt he tired, and made himſelf ridiculous to
all the company, «1 es;

57. Lil

Proverbial Sentences. 135
57. Like puniſhment and equal pain, hoth hey and
khey-hole do maintain.
Let your purſe be your maſter, .

Meſſe te nus propria vive,

58. He that ems hu purſe lon = to be rid of it.

59. Be it better or be it worſe, berul'd by him
that bears the py ſe.

60. _m_ ſome ofa pudding, then none of a pye.

Q.

„Qua- meat, quick at worx.
1. Th beſte s eſchanffe en mangeant, Gall. A good
beaſt will ger himſelf on hear with eating. Hardi gaigneur

hardi mangeur, Gall,

4 We pa live by the quick, and nor by the
3. Any ching for a quict life.

R.

\ Jaan rain lays great. duſt,
1, 'Perke pluye abat grand vent. Small rain, oz a little
_ sa great wind, Gall. So ſaid a mad fellow, who lying
bed bepiſt his farting wives back,

2. Ras/e no more ſpirits then you can conjure
down,

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3. Raw leather will ſtretch.
4. There's reaſon in roaſting of eggs,
4. Eſt modus in rebus,

No receiver no thief.
5. The receiver 's as bad as the thief,
5. Aueb ret im, Y JeHAνOG, Y ies.
Phocyl.

6 He that rechen: without his hoſt, muſt reckon
again,

6. Chi fa conto ſenza |' hoſte fa conto due volte, Ital, <1

compte ſans ſon hoſte, il lui conyient compter deux ſois, Gall.

7. Even reckoning keeps long friends,

7. A vieux compres nouvelles diſputes, Gall. Old reck-
onings breed new diſputes or quarrels, Conto ſpeſſo e ami-
citia longa, Ital.

8. Never veſaſe a good offer.

9. If I had veveng d all wrong, I had not worn

my skirts ſo long. F. 54.
10. Tis brave ſcrambling at a rich mans dole,
11, Soon rife ſoon rotten,

11, Cit maturum cits putridum. Odi puernlum pracoci
ſapientia, Apul. It is commonly held an ill ſign, for a child
to be too forward and rife-witted, viz, either to betoken
mature death, according to that mot have ſomewhere feen
under z coat of arm,

Is cadit ante ſenem qui ſapit ante diem;
or to beroken as early a decay of wit and parts, As trees that
bear double flowers, viz. 5 peaches, &c. Bring forth
no ſtuit, but ſpend all in the bloſſum. Wherefore as another
Proyetb hath it 3 It is bettet to knit then bloſſom,

12. Men

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Proverbial Sentences, 137

12. Men uſe to worſhip the ring ſun,

12, Plures adorant ſolem oriemtem quam occidentem, They
chat ate young and riſing have more followers, then they that
are old and decaying, This conſideration , it is thought,
withheld Queen Elizabeth a prudent Princeſs from declaring
her ſucceflour,

13, All's loſt that's put in a riven diſh,

13. All is loſt that is beſtowed on an ungrateful perſon ; he
remembers no courteſies.

14. He loves roaſt-meat well, that licks the ſpit.
14. M. 50.

15. Tales of Robin Hood are good enough for fools,

15. That is, many talk of things which they have no skill
in, or experience of, Robert Hood was a famous robber in
the time of King Richard the firſt; his principal haunt was
about Shirewood foreſt in Notinebam-ſbire. Camden calls
him, pradouem mitiſi mum. Of his ſtollen goods he afford»
ed good penny-worths, Lightly come lightly go.

16. Many talk of Robin Hood, that never ſhot
in his bow, (him know,
And many talk of little ohr that never did

17. Spare the rod and ſpoil the child,

18. 4 rogues wardrobe is harbouy for a byſe.

19. A rolling ſtone gathers no moſs.

19. Saxum volutum nou obducitur muſce, NS N-
Shur & N e56n& v mill, Pietra moſſa non fa muſchio,
Ital. La pierre ſouvent remute n' amaſſe yolontiers
mouſſe, Gal. To which is parallel that of Fabiws, Qu.
Planta qua ſapiiis transferti now coaleſcit, A plant often rev
moyed cannot thrive,

20, Rome

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! 138 Proverbial Sentences,

20. Rome was not built in one day.

1 20. Rome n' a eſte baſti tout en un jour, Gall. & Grand
bien ne vient pas en peu d heures. A great eſtate is not
gotten in a few hours,

4 21. Name not a rope in his houſe that hang'd
J himſelf.

4 22. Noroſe without a thorn. I. 19.

22, Nulla eft ſincera voluptas. I. 19.

23. The faireſt roſe at laſt is withered.
24. He may ill run that cannot go.
The rough ner, &c. v. net.

25. At a roundtable there's no diſpute of place,

25. This deſerves not place among Proverbs, yet becauſe
I find ir both among our Exglihh collections, and likewiſe
the French and Italian, I have let it paſs, A tavola tonda
non {i contende del luoco, Ital. Ronde table oſte le de»
bat, Gall.

26. He that runs faſteſt, gets moſt ground.
27. There's no general rule without ſume ex-
ception.

8.

N old ſack, &c. v. old.
The ſecond blow makes the fray,
1, Set the ſaddle on the right horſe.

1. This Proverb may be variouſly applied; eicher thus,
Let them bear the blame that deſerve it: or thus, Let them
bear the burden that are beſt able. *

2. Where

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Proverbial Sentences, 1:9

2. Where ſaddles do lack, better ride on a pad,
then the bare horſe- back.

2. MN ec.

3. Sadneſs and gladueſi ſucceed each other.

4. It's hard to ſail o're the ſeain an egg ſhell,

5. A young ſaint an old devil. v. young.

6, There 's 2 /a/ve for every ſore,
A good /alade is the prologue to a bad

ſupper,

7, Save ſomething for the man that rides on the

white horſe.

7, For old age, wherein the head grows white. It's ſome-
what a harſh Metaphor to compare age to a horſe.

Every penny that's ſaved is not gotten,
8. Of ſaving cometh having.
9. Learn to ſay before you ſing. v. C. 72.
10. He that would ſail without danger, muſt ne-
ver come on the main ſea.
11. Faying and doing are two things,
11, Du dire au fait y a grand traict, Gall,

12. Say well and do well end with one letter, Say
well is good, but do well is better. |
Scald not your lips in another, &c. v. a-
nother.

13, Oneſcab'd ſheep will marr a whole flock,
13, Una pecora in fetta n ammorba una ſerra, Ital. II ne
faut qu* une brebis rogneuſe pour gaſter tour le troupeou, Gall,

Gren totus in agris unins ſcabie cadit

& porrigime porch, Juvenal.

14. 4

140 Proverbial Sentences,

14. A ſcalded cat fears celd water.

14. Can ſcottato d' acqua calda ha paura poi della fre-
dea, Ital. Chat eſchaude craint I eau froide. p

A ſcal'd head is ſoon broken. 28
15. A ſcal'd horſe is good enough for a ſcab'd
15. Dignum patell 4 operculnm,

16. Among the common people Scoggin's a doctour.
16, EY de x; topud'& eNyerau. Eft autem
Corydus vili ſi mum avicule genus miui me que canorum.

17. Who more ready to call her neighbour ſcold,
then the erranteſt ſcold in the pariſh ?
18. 5 corning is catching.

18. He that ſcorns any condition, action cr employment,
may come to be, nay oſten is driven upon it himſelf,

18, Scratch my breech, and 1'll claw your el-
bow.

18, Au muli ſcabunt, Ka me and I'll ka thee.
When undeſerving perſons commend one another. Manns
— m fricat & Manus manum lavat. Differ not much in
cNnces

19. Praiſe the ſea, but keep on land,
19, Loda il mare & tienti à cerra, Hal.

20. Se/dom ſeen ſoon forgotten, v. 45. & A. 2,
21. Seeing is believing,
22. Seldom comes a better.
23. To ſee it rain is better then tobe in it.
24. The

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24.
25.
26.

27.
28.

29.

© Proverbial Semences, 141

The ſelf-edge makes ſbew of the cloth.

Self do,ſelf have.

Self. love * 5 a mote in every mans che.

Service is no inheritance.
A young ſerving- man, &c. v. young.

It's a ame to ſteal, but a worſe to carry
home.

Shameleſs craving muſt have ſhameful nay.

29, Abondemandeur bon refuſeur, Gall.

30.

It's very hard to ſhave an egg. v. egg.
A barber learns to ſnave by ſhav.ng of fools,

30. Abarbede fol on apprend a raire, Gal/, Ala barba
de pazzi il barbier impara a radere, Ital. He is a fool that will
ſufter a young beginner to practiſe firſt upon him.

31. 7t's ill ſhaving againft the wool.
32. He that wakes himſelf a ſheep, ſhall be eaten

by the wolf.

32, Chi pecora fi fail lupo la mangia, ral. Qui. ſe fait
brebis le loup le mange, Ga. He that is gentle, and puts up
affronts and injuries ſhall be ſure to be loaden. Veterem fe-
rends injuriam invites wovam, Terent. Poſt folis cadunt
erborts, Plaut.

33.

34.
35.

He that ſhews his purſe, &c. v. purſe,
Hang him that hath no t..
A bad ſhift, &c. v. bad,
Cloſe fits my ſhirt, &c. v. cloſe.
Shitten luck s good luck.
The wearer beſt knows where the ſbooe
wrings him.

36, Every

142 Proverb;al Sentences.

36. Every ſhooe fits not every foot,
36, It is therefore an inſtance of abſurd application, Eun,
dem calcewm omni pedi imauene.

37. The ſoove will hold with the ſole.

fl 37. La ſuola tien con la Scarpa, Ital. i.e. The ſole holds
| with the fhooe,

38. Keep thy op, and thy ſhop will keep thee,
39. Short and ſweet.
39. Sermonis prolixitas faſlidis ſa. Cognat. è Ficino,

Short acquaintance brings repentance,
40. A ſhort horſe is ſoon curried.
41. Short ſhooting looſeth the came.
42. Short pleaſure long lament.
42, De court plaiſir long repentir, Gall.

43. A ſhort man needs us ſtool to give a great
lubber abox on the ear.

44. A — ſtomac k makes ſbort devotion.

45. Out of ſight out of mind.

45+ This is (I ſuppoſe) alſo a Dutch Proverb. W
mus ſuith, Fam omnibus in ore eff, qui ſemotus fit ab ocn
eundem quoque ab animo ſemotum eſſe. v. 20. & A2.

46. Hilence is conſent, Chi tace confeſſa, Ital.

46. Ard os T oay νẽEmuñffοοαν bat oz, Emripid,
Lui tacet conſentire videtur, inquiunt Jui conſulti. Aſſet
conſent quine mot dit, Gall,

47. Whiteſilver draws black lines.

48. No

» wits =

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Proverbial- Sentences,

48. No filver no ſervant. P. 16.

48. The Suiſſe: have a Proverb among themſelves, paral-
lel to this. Point d' 12 point de Suifle, No money no
Suiſſe. The Smwiſſes for money will ſerye neighbouring
Princes in their wars , and are as famous in our days for
mercenary ſouldiers, as were the Carians of old,

143

49. Who doth fag ſo merry a note, as he that
cannot change a groat ?
49. Cantabit vacums coram latrone vater.

50. As me fit till as riſe up and fall.
51. If che skyfalls we ſhall catch larks.

51. Se roviniſle il cielo fi = — di malti uccelli,
hal, Si le ciel tomboi, les caillos ſeroyent prinſes, Gall,

A broken ſleeve, &c. vv. broken.

52. Good to ſleepin a whole skin.

53. The ſlaggards guiſe, Loath to go to bed
and loath to riſe.

54. Sluts are good enough to make flovens
pottage.

55. A ſmall ſam will ſerve to pay a ſbort reckonins.

56. A ſmall pack, becomes 4 [mall pedler.

56. Petit mercier, petit panier, Gall.

$7. The ſmoke follows the fair,
58. No ſmoke without ſome fire. 5. e. There is
no ſtrong rumour without ſome ground
for it. Cognatxs hath it among his La-
tineProverbs, Non eſt ſumus abſquergne,
though it be no ancient one. v. F. 11.
59. Sor

10 144 Proverbial Sentences,
11 59. Soft fire makes ſweet malt.

1 60, Something hath ſome ſavour.

14 61. Soon hot oon cold.

1 Soon ripe, &c. v. ripe.

1 Soon crooks the tree, &c. v. crooks.

1 62. Sorrow and an evil life, maketh ſoon an old

Wife.

63. 3 comes unſent for.
Sorrow will pay no debt.

64. Sorrow is always dry.

65. A turd 's as good for a ſow as a pancake,

65+ Tray aime micux bran que roſes, Gall.

In ſpace comes grate,
66, Better "wy then ill ſpent,
67. Better (pare at the brim, then at the bottom,
"* 68. Ever /pare and ever bare.
Spare the rod, &c. v. rod,
69. What the goodwife ſpares, the cat eat?.
70. It's too late to ſpare when the bottom is bare,
70. Sera in fundo parſimonia, Seneca Bpiſt. 1. Any
iyi us edv. Heſiad.

71. Spare to ſpeak, and ſpare to ſpeed. v. C. 38.
A. 25. |
72. Speak fair and think, what you will.
73. He that ſpeaks laviſaly, ſhall hear as kna-
vi/bly.
73. Rui pergit ea que vult dicere, ea qua now vult audi-
et, Terent.:

74. Great

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Proverbial Sentences, 143

74. Great ſpenders are bad lenders.
Raiſe no more ſpirits, &c. +, ſpirits.

75. Speak, when you are ſpoke to, come when
you are call'd.

76. Spend and God will ſend.

76. A qui chapon mange chapon lui vient, Gall, He
that eats good meat ſhall have good meat.

77. That is well ſpoken, that is well taken,
78. Toa muſt ſpoil before you ſpin.

78. Sport i [Weereſt, when no ſpectatouri.
80. Do not ſpar a free horſe.

$0. Non opus admiſſo ſubdere caltar equo, Ovid.

81. 1t's a bad ſtake, will not ſtand one year in the
heage.

82, Standing pools gather filth. v. D. 50.

83. He that will fea/ an egg, will ſteal an ox.

$4. Hethat will fea/ a pin, will teal a better
thing.

85. Standers by, ſee more then gameſters.

15. Plus in aliens quem in ſus negotis vident homines,

86, When the feed is ſtoln, the ſtable door ſhall
be ſhut, D. 14.

$6. Serrarla ſtalla quando & han perduri i buovi, Ital. H
eſt temps de fermer ] eſtable quand les c hevaux en ſont alles,
Gall, (Sat. 13.

Quandoquidem accepto claudenda eff janua damno, Juven.
Serd clypenm poſt vulnera ſumo, Ovid.

L Bleſſed

I 46 | Proverblal Sentences.
Bleſſed be St Stephen, there's no faſt on

his even,
87. The till ſow eats up all the draff,
88. wheſo lacketh a ſtock, his gain 's not worth
a chip.
89. Store is no ſore,
Stretch your arm, &c. v. arm.
Strike while the iron, &c, v. iron.
go. No ſtriving againſt the ſtream.
99, Contra torrewtem nitl,

Stultus ab abli quo qui cumdiſcedere poſſit,
Pugnat in adver ſas ire natator aquas,Ov.v.P.27,

91. After a ſterm comes à calm.

91. Doppo il cattivo ne vien il buon tempo, Ital. Apres
la — vient le beau temps, Gall.

92. That ſuit 5s beſt that beſt fits me.
93. No ſunſhine but hath ſome ſhadoW.
Put a ſtool in the /xx, when one knave
riſes another comes.
They that walk much ith* fun, will be
tann'd at laſt,
94. Fure bind ſure find.
$4, Bon guet chaſſe mal aveuture, Gall.

One ſwallow; &c, v. one.
95- No ſweet without ſome ſweat.
95. Null pain ſans peine, Gall,

96. Sweet meat muſt have ſowre ſauce. . '
97. He

Proverbid Sentences. 147

97. He — needs ſwim, that *s held up by the
chin.

N 97. Celuy peut hardiment nager 2 qui Þ. on ſouſti ent le
| menton, Gall,

oy Put not a naked ſword in a mad mans hand,
. Ne puero =o For 1 will abuſe ir to their own

nd —
99. He that ſtriker with the ſword, ſhall he beaten
| with the ſcabl ard.
7. 100. No ſporr, no pye.
tes *

M* not thy tail broader then thy wings,
i. keep not too many attendants.
A tailours ſbreds are worth the cutting.
Tales of Robin Hood, &c. v. Robin Hood.
. Good take heed doth ſurely | ſpeed. v. H. 31.
A good rale ill told, is marrꝰd in the telling.
One tale is good till another is told.
. Thr greateſt ralkęrs are always the leaſt
doers.
4. Now verbis ſed factis opus eil.

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5. Nothing dries ſconer then tears.
5. Niente piu toſto ſe ſecca che lagrime, Hal.

Heteacheth ill, who teacheth all.
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148 Proverbial Sentences.
6. : When Ive thatch't his houſe, be would throw |
mec down.
6. EAI H 08 wtirgy *; ov GuSiou ut t.
I haye taught thee to dive, and thou ſeekeſt to drown me,

7, Set a thief to take a thief,
d. All are not chjeves that dogs bark at.
9. Save a thief from the gallows, and he'll be
the firſt ſhall cut your throat.
9, Diſpiccha l' impicchato che impicchera poi te, Ital,
Olte ⁊ un vilain dugiber il, vous y mettra, Gall.

Give a lief rope enough, and he'll hang
himſtlf. .
10. One may think that dares not ſpeak. |]
And it's as uſual a ſaying, Thoughts are
free.

io. Humane laws can take no cognizance of thoughts, un-
leſs they diſcover themſelves by ſome overt actions.

11, lere ever a mand\vells, he ſhall be ſure to
buave a thorn buſh car his door.
12. He that handl:sthorns, fball prick his fingers.
13. Threaned folks live long.
14. Three may keep counſel, if two be away.

14. The French ſay, Secret de Deux ſecret de Dieu, ſecrec
de trois ſecret de tous. | |

15. He that will thrive, muſt riſe at five : He
that hath thriven may lie till ſeven.
16. Thethunderbolr hath but bis clap.
17. Tidings maß either glad or ſad.
18. Time

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Proverbial- Sentences.
18. Time fleeth away without dela 'y.

18, Cito pede praterit atas,

19. A mouſe in time, may bite in two a cable,
20. Timeand tide tarry torno man.
21. Time and ſtraw make medlars ripe.

21, Col rempo & la paglia fi maturano meſpoli, Ital.
Avec le temps & la paille on meure le meſles, Gall,

22. Take time when time is, for time will away.

23. Timely bloſſom timely ripe,

24. A tinkersbadget *s full of neceſſary tools.

25. Too muchof onething is good for nothing.

25. Aer { a ſi trop n' y a, Gall, Ne quid win.
Mud du. This is an Apophthegme of one of the ſeven wiſe
menz ſome attribute it to Thales ſome to Selen. E, modus
in rel us ſant, Cc. Hor.

Too too will in two, Ch-ſh.

Touch a gall'd horſe, &c. v. gall'd.
26. He that travels far, knows much.

Tread ona worm, &c, v. worm.
27. There Ino tree but bears ſome fruit.
28. Fach at the tree ii, ſuch is the fruit.
28. Telle vacine, telle fucille, Gall,

29. If you truſt before you try, you may repent
before you die.

29, Tice Xi, tam, dmg d iM. Theegu.

Therefore it was an ancient ptecept. Mipuynov duceir.

30. In truſt is treaſon,
Speak

150 proverbial Sentences,
| Speak the truth and ſhame the Devil.
31. Trab may be blamed, but 't ſhall never be
ſhamed.
32. Truth finds foes where it makes none.

32. Obſequium amicos, veritas odium parit, Terent,

33. All :r«th muſt not be told at all times.
33. Tour vray n' eſt pas bonadire, Zeal.

34. That is true which all men ſay. F. 11.
34. Vox popmli,vox Dei.

35. Let every tab ſtand on it's own bottom. H. 34.

35. Chaſcun irs au moulin avec ſon propte ſac, Gall, E-
very one muſt go to the mill with his own ſack, i. e. bear
his own burden.

At is as good for a ſow, v. ſow.
Where the Tut, horſe once treads, the
graſs never grows,
36. One good tur» asks another,
36, Qui plaiſir fair plaifir requiert, Gall. Gratia gratiam
parit. Xe*ts oat mIxTH, Sophoc!, He that would have
friends, muſt ſhew himſelf friendly. Fricantem refrica,

- Toy Eyoym ayntyauy, It is meet and comely, juſt and e-

—

qual to requite kindneſſes, and to make them amends who have
deſerved well of us. Mutual offices of love, and alternate help

or aſſiſtance, are the fruits and iflues of true friendſhip,

For one good turn another doth itch, claw
my elbow, &c.

37. As good twenty as nineteen.

If

4.

ear

Proverbial Sentences, 151

If things were to be done twice, all would
be wiſe.

38. Two heads are better then one.

38. Eis drop sd dt arg. Daus vir nalles vir,

39. Two eyes ſee more then one.

39. Deux yeux voyent plus clair qu* un, Gall, Plus
vident ocult quam oculus,

Two ill meals, &c. v. meals.
40. Between two ſtools the breech cometh to
the ground,

4o, Tener il cul ſu due ſcanni, Ital, Il a le cul entre
deux ſelles, or, Aſſis entre deux ſelles le cul à terre, Gall.
Tout eſt fait negligemment la ou l' un Þ autre s* attend, While
one truſts another, the work is left undone,

41. T wo to one is ods,

41. Noli pugnare duobrs, Catull, & Ne Hercules quidem
adver ſus duos, It's no uncomely thing to give place to multi-
tude, Hard to reſiſt the ſtren h, or the wit, or the importu-
nity of two or more combin'd againſt one. Hercules was too
little for the Hydra and Cancer together,

42. Two cats and a mouſe, two wives in one
houſe, two dogs anda bone never agree
in one,

42, Deux chiens ne s' accordent point àun os, Gall,

43. Good riding at to anchors men have told,
For if one break tother may hold.

43. Duabus anchors fultus. "Em Jvoiy uαν,ç, Ariſtid-

AY If Torres iy νννEẽäla wr de Os vids

L 4 dx bem

152 Proverbial Sentences.
eie NN &tywwent, Pindar. Ir's good in a ſtormy
or winter night, to have two anchors to caſt out of a ſhip,

44. Two dogs ſtrive for a bone, and the third runs
away wich it.

U.

1. E that ſtays in the valley, ſhall never get
over the hill,

2. You cannot make velvet of a ſowsear.

3. Venture 4 ſmall fiſh to catch a great one.

15 II faut hazarder un petit poiſſon pour prendre un
grand, Gal.

4. Nothing venture nothing have.

4. Chi non s' arriſchia non guadagna, Ital. Qui ne Y&
adyefituren* a cheval ny mule, Gal. Nuid enim tentare
wocebit; Q Commando Gract Troja potits ſwat,

$. Where vice is, vengeance follows,

5. Rard antecedentem ſceleſtum deſernit pede pa na claus
do, Horat.

Unbidden gueſts, &c. v. in G.

6. Better be Anborn then unbred.

7, Make a vertue of neceſſity.

7. II ſavio fa della neceſſita virtu, Ital, . Thy dy2y ii
T) yl TeiCeiy, & "Aparyrars payer. Eraſmus makes
to be much of the ſame ſence, That is, to do ot ſuffer that
patiently which cannot well be ayoided, Levins fit patien-
tia. Quicquid corrigere eft n:jas, Or to do that our *

Y

2 LO aa 55 =

by

Proverbial Sentences, 153
my by an act of our own, which we ſhould otherwiſe ſhortly be
p. compelled todo, So the bt and Covents which re

their lands into King Hewry the cighth his hands, made a
ins vertue of neceſſity.

8. Ungirt unbleſt.
9. Better be anmannerly, then troubleſome.
10. Uſe makes perſectneſs.

10. WH ſus prompres facit.

Py 11. Vſclegs and have legs.

12. Once an »ſe and ever a cuſtom,

13. Toborrow on uſury brings ſuddain beggery.
= 13+ Cid aſera currit quam Heraclits, The pay days

recurre before the credirour is aware, Of the miſchicfs of
uſury 1 need ſay nothing, there having been two very in-
genious treatiſes lately publiſhed upon that ſubject, ſufſfici-
ent to convince any diſintereſſed perſon of the evil conſe-
* Þ quences of a high intereſt , and the benefit that would ac-
we © crue to the common wealth in general, by the depreſſion of

intereſt,
[778
W.
I, O ſafe wading in an unknown water.
3. Its mot good to Wake a ſleeping dog; or
lion.

* 3. Good ware makes quick markets.
eS 15 |
0 3, Proba merx facile emptorem reperit, Plaut. pœn.
4 4. When the wares be gone, ſbut up the ſhop windows.

* *

17 5. One

154 Proverbial Sentenqrt.
One cannot live by ſelling ware for words.
4 War maſt be ＋ by —
7. Wars bring ſcars.
8. Foul water will quench fire.
9. Where the water is ſhallow, no veſſel will ride.
10. It's a great way to the bottom of the _
11. Thereare more ways to the wood then one,
12. The weakeſt muſt go to the wall.

12, Les mal veſtus devers le vent, Gall, The wort clo-
thed are ſtill put to the wind- ward.

13. Weak men had need be witty.
14. Wealth makes worſhip.
The wearer beſt knows where the ſhooe,
&c. v. ſhooe,
15. Never be weary of well doing.
It's hard to make a good web of a bottle
of hay.
Ill weeds grow apace. v. in ].
16. One ill weed marrs a whole pot of pottage.
17. Anill-fpun weft, will out either now or eff,
17, Weft, i. e. web, This is a Tork ſvire Proverb,

18, Great tveights hang on ſmall wires,

19. Welcome is the beſt chear.

Iy. Zeri If N WuCG aus. In maneribus vo
preſt autiſſima mens eſt. Super omuia vnltus acceſitre boni.

20. That that is we//done is twice done.

21. Well well, is a word of malice, (eb.

21, In other places, if you ſay well well, they will ask,
whom you threaten.

22. If

th

Al

» = >

de.

Ine,

Clo»

oe,

trle

ige.

eft.

Proverbial Sentences. 155
22, If well and them cannot, then ill and them
can, Torkſh.
23, A her is no let.
Tell me with whom thou goeſt, &c. v.
in G.
24. A white wall is a fools paper.
24. Muro bianco carta da matti, hal. Some put this in

rhyme; He is a fool and ever ſhall, that writes his name
upon a wall.

25. A young whore an old ſaint,
26. Once a whore and ever a whore.

26. ſemel ſcurra n amilias, Cic. orat;
Qs | = * 5 |

Aliquands qui luſit iterum

27. Who ſo blind, as they that wi4 not ſee? v.
in B.

28. Who ſo deaf, as they that il not hear ?

28. I n' eſt de pite ſourd que celuy qui ne veut ouir, Gall.

29. He that i not when he may, when he wills
he ſhall have nay.

30. Nothing is impoſſible to a willing mind.
All lay load on the willing horſe. v. in H.

31. Will the cauſe of Wo.

32. They who cannot as they will, muſt will
as they may : or muſt do as they can.

32, Chi non puo fare come voglia faccia come puo, Ital.
and Chi non puo quel che ynol, quel che puo voglia. Quo-
— id fieri quod vis wow poteſt, veli id quod 2 Terent.
Andtia.

33. Puff

156 Proverbial Sentences,
33. Puff not againſt the wind,
34. It is an ill wind blows no body nod.

34. Aquelque choſe malheur eſt bonne, Gall. Misfortune
is good for ſomething,

35. The wind kreps not always in one quarter,
30. Good wine needs no buſh.

36. Al buon vino non biſogna fraſca, Ital. A bon vin il ne
faut point d' enſeigne, Gall, Vino vendibili hederã ſuſfenſ i

1 1 eſt 0p.

37. When the wine is in, the wit is out.

37. Is Proderlium ceſſit, Saptentiam vino obumbrari, Plin.
lib. 2 7, cap. 1.

38. The ſweeteſt vine, makes the ſbarpeſt vi-
neger.
38. Vineger, 1. . Vinum acre, Forte e l' acetodi vin dul.
ce, Ital. Corrnjtio optimi eff peſſima.

39. Wink at ſmall faults,
40. It's a hard winter, when one Wolf cats ano
ther.

40. This is a French Proverb, Mauvaiſe eſt la ſaiſon quand
mm loup mange |* autre,

41. He that Paſſeh a winters day , eſcapes an
enem
41, This is alſo a | French Proverb, Qui = un jour d' hy-
ver paſſe un de ſes ennemis mortels.

42. By wiſdom peace, by peace plenty.

43. Wile men are Canght i in wiles.
4 4. Some

If

Proverbial Semtencts. - 157

44. Some are wiſe, and ſome are otherwiſe.

45. Send a wile manof an errand, and ſay nothing
to him,

46. Wiſhers and woulders are never good houſe-
holders.
If wiſhes were thruſbes, beggers would eat

birds.
ine 47. If wifes would bide, beggers would ride.

i 47. Si ſouhairs furent vrais paſtour eaux ſeroyent rois,Gall,
If wiſhes might prevail, ſhepherds would be kings.

48. Inever fared worſe, then when 1 wi/'t for
lin, my ſupper,
49. Wiſh in one hand and ſh—- in the other, and
ſee which will be full firſt, |
50. Bought wie is beſt,

30. Duro flagells mens docetuy reſtii u. Exaned N u-
na; mudunuye rapdiar, Nazjianz, TiamnuaTe u
14.74, Nocnmenta documents. Galeatum ſerd duelli pœnitet.

51, Wit once bought, is worth twice taugbt.
* 52. A Wonder laſts but nine days.
53. A word is enough to the wile.

ind 53- A buon intenditor poche parole, hal. A bon enten-
deur il ne faut que demye parole, Gall. So the Italians ſay,
A few wordsz we ſay one word; and the French ſay, half a
an word is enough to the underſtanding and apprehenſrve.

y- 54. Words are butwind, but blows unkind.
ſ4. Kepbramy mwegypa Ay ©,
55. Fair words make fools fain, 5. e. glad.

„ Douces promeſſes obligent les fols, Gall. 1
56. Fait

1
1
1

Goll, Soft words ſcald not the tongue.

58 Proverbial Senn.
56. Fair words butter no parſnips.
56. Re opitulamdum non verb

57. Good words coſt noughr.
58. Good words cool more then.cold water.
59. Soft words hurt not the mouth.

59. Douces or belles paroles ne ſcorchent pas la langue

/

60. Soft words break no bones,

61. Soft words and hard arguments.

62. More words then one go to a, &c, v.in B,
An honeſt mans word is as good, &c. »,

in H.

63. Many words hart more then ſwords,

64. An ill workman quarrels with his tools.

64. Meſchant ouyrier ja ne trouveta bons outils, Gall.

65. The better workman the worſe husband.

65. Though this be no Proverb, yet it is an obſeryatic
enerally true (the more the pity) and therefore, as 1 haye

it, I pur it down,

66. All work and no play , makes Jack a dull
ho |

67. The World was never ſo dull, but if one wi
not another will.

68. It's a great journey to the worlds end.

69. I wote well how the world wags, he is mol
lov'd that hath moſt bags. ,

69. Toy ey ivrwy α,jẽjCͤ 6am ov fudis. Felicia
ennlti.cognati. It was wont to be [aid Ubi amici ili oper, but now

Praverbial Sentences, 159
may (as Zraſmus complains) well be inyeged, Us; opes

j amich

70. Tread on a worm and it will turn.
70. Habet & muſca ſplenem. EY x4v e u rev
Ne oi Ineff & formice & ſerpho bilis, The meaneſt
xr weakeſt perſon is not to be provoked or deſpiſed. No
ngue, ature ſo ſmall, weak or contemptible, but it it be injured
d abuſed, will endeayour to revenge it ſelf,

71. Every thing is the worſe forthe wearing.
72, He that worſt may, ſtill holds the candle.
n B. 72. Au plus debile la chandelle a la main, Gall.

73. The worth of a thing, is beſt known by the
want.

73. Bien perdu bien connu, or, Choſe perdu# eſt lors
onnue, Gall, Vache ne ſęait que vaut ſa queũe juſques à ce
zu elle l“ ait perdut, The cow knows not what her tall is
orth, till ſhe hath loſt ir,

rio 74. He that wreſtles with a t- is ſure to be beſh-
have whether he fall over or under,

74. 9 1 he that contends with vile 3 rel
nothing bur a ſtain by it, One cannot pitch wi

75. A wooll-ſeller knows a wooll-buyer, Tork/s.

Proverbial Sententes,

; NT
1. A ſoon goes the young lambs skin to the

market, as the old ews.

1. Auſſi toſt meurt veau comme vacke, Gall. Coſi toſto
muore il capretto come capra, Ital.

2. Toung men think old men fools, and old men
know young men to be ſo.

2. This is quoted by Camden, as a ſaying of one Doctour
Metcalf. It is now in many peoples mouths, and likely to
paſs into a Proverb,

3. A young ſaint an old Devil.
3. De jeune Angelote vieux diable, Gall. A Tarteſſo ad
. *

4. A young ſer ving - man an old begger. v. in 8.

5. 2 whore an old ſaint. v. in W.

6. Towng men may die, but old men muſt. v. in O.

If youth knew what age would crave, it would
both ger and ſave.

\ Proverbial

Proverbial Phraſes and forms of ſpeech

that are not entire Sentences,

A,

tour T
ly to I, O bring an Abbey to a Grange.

1. To bring a noble to ninepence. We ſpeak it of an un-
thrifr,

0 ad 2. To commit as many 4b ſurdities as a clown in
eating of an egg.

3. Afraid of far enough. Cheſs.
3. Of chat which is never likely to happen.

3 4. Afraid of him that died laſt year. Ch..
c 5. Afraid of his own ſhadow,

6, More afraid then hurt.

7. They agree like cats and dogs.

8. They agree like harp and harrow.

v. In the ſame ſence with the precedent. Why harp and
= I know not, unleſs becauſe they begin with the ſame
ettet. n

ial 9. They agree like bells, they want nothing but

hanging.
10. He 8

162 Proverbial: Phraſes.

10. He 's paced like an Alderman.
11, The caſe is alter d, quoth Pley den.

11, Hmm Pleudem was an eminet common Lawyer in
Queen Eliſabeths time; born at Plowdews in Shropſhire, of
whom Camden gives this chatacter. Vite integritate inter
homines ſux prof eſſionis wulli ſecumdus. Eliſabeth, An. 15 84,
And S Fdwward Coke calls him the oracle of the common Law.
The Proverb is uſually applied ro ſuch Lawyers or others, who
being corrupted with larger: fees, ſhift ſides and pretend the
caſe 15 altered 3 ſuch as have Bovem in lingua. Some make
this the occaſion of the Proyerb : Pl being asked b
a neighbour of his, what remedy there was in Law againſt
ſome hogs that treſpaſſed his ground, anſwered , he might
have very good remedy; but the other reply ing, that
were his hogs, nay then (quoth he) the calc is alter d.

12. To angle with a ſilver hook,

13. If you be angry, you may turn the buckle
of your girdle behind you.

14. To cut large ſhives of an:they mans loaf,

15. Jo cut large thongs of azother mans leather,

14, 15+ De aliens co. io liberals, Del cuoio d altri ſi fan-
no le corregge larghe, Ital. I coupe large courroye du cuir
d' autruy, Gall. Jt may paſs for a ſentence thus, Men cut
large ſhives of others loaves. This ſhou!d ſeem to be alſo
a Dntch Proverb, For Fraſmns ſaith, Circamfertur ap: d no-
ftratium vnlgus non abſrmile huic proverbium, Ex alieno ter-
gore lata ſecari lora,

16. Arſy verly.
17. To anſwer one in his own language.
18. A pretty fellow to make an ax/e-tree for an

oven. Cheſs,

1. He

= = x

—2 = =— @ =

T at

' Proverbial Phraſes,

163

B.

1. E knovs not a B from a Battledeer.

2. His back is broad enough to bear jeſts,
3. My Lord Baldwin 's dead. & uſſex.

3. It is uſed, when one tells that for news which every bo-

dy knows. A Swſſex Proverb, But who this Lord Baldwin
was, I could not learn there,

4. You'll not believe he 's bald, till you ſee his

brains.

5- Never a barrel better herring.

6. Bate me anace, quoth Bolton,

6. Who this Boltow was 1 know nor, nor is it worth the en-
quiring. One of this name might happen to ſay, Bate me aus
ace, and for the coincidence of the two firſt letters of theſe
two words Bate and Boltow, it grew to be a Proverbs we have
many of the like original, as Sup Simon, &c., There goeth
a ſtory of Queen Eliſabeth, that ing eſented with a col-
lection of Emghiſh Proverbs, and told by the Authour, that
it contained all the Engliſ 1 nay —
me an ace , quoth Bolton; which Proyerb bei y
looked for, happened to be wanting in his colleQion.

7. You dare as well take a Beay by the tooth,

8. If it were a Bear it would bite you.

9. Are you there with your Bears ?

10. To go like a Bear to the ſtake.

11. He bath as many tricks as a dancing Bear.

12, If that the courſe be fair, again and again,

quoth Bunny to his Bear,
M 2 13. 1

164 Proverbial Phraſes,

13. 1 bear him on my back.
13. That is, IT remember his injuries done to me with in-
dignation and grief, or with a purpoſe of revenge.

74. To bear away the bell.

15. Better belicve it, then go where it was done
to prove it,

15, Voglio piu toſto crederlo che andar acercarlo, Ital.

16, You'll ſcratcha beg ger before you die,

16, Meaning himſelf,

17. The belly thinks the throat cut.

18. To have the bent of ones bow.

19. Between hawk and buzzard.

20. To look as big, as if he had eaten bull beef,

21. To bite upon the bridle. |

21, That is, to fare hardly, to be cut ſhort, or ſuffer want,
for a horſt can eat but flowly when the bridle is in his mouths
or elſe to fret and ſwell and diſquiet himſelf with anger,
Frawa moridere in Latine hath a different ſence, i. e, to refilt
thoſe who have us in ſubjection; aan unruly horſe gets the
bridle between his teeth, or as a dog bites the ſtaff you beat
him with, Srativs uſerh it in a different ſence, vi. | o ſub»
mit to the conquerour and rake patiently the bridle in ones
mouth z Sabiit leges & fræna momor dit.

22. Jill after helve.
23. Though I be birren, Iam not all eaten.
24. To waſha Blackmore white.

24. Athiopem lavare or dealbare, To waſh, &c. M-
thopem 0 jul οr Adbxauyoy.

25. As

one

al.

As

Proverbial Phraſes. 165

As the blindman ſhot the crow,

. To make a bt or a ſhaft of a thing.

There 's a bone for you to pick.

. You ſeeka brack where the hedge is whole.
Brackley breed, better to hang then feed.

29. Brackley is a ſmall decayed market- town and borough

WH vv HD
0

in Norihamptow/hire, which aboundiog with poor, and troublin
the Countrey about with beggets, came into dilgrace with
irs neighbours, I hear that now chat this place is grown in-
duſtrious and thriving, and endeayours to wipe off chis ſcandal,

30. His brains are addle.
31, He knows which fide his breadis butrer'd on.
32, would make a horſe break his bridle, or a
dog his halter. 11
33. One may as ſoon break, his neck, as his faſt
there,
34. Break, my head and bring mea plaiſter.
35. Spare your breath to cool your pottage.
36. His breech makes buttons,
36. This is (aid of a man in fear. We know vehement

fear cauſes a relaxation of the Sphiniter ani and unyoluntary
dejetion. Buttons, becauſe the excrements of ſome animals
are not unlike buttons or pellets, as of ſheep, hares , &c.
Nay they are ſo like that they are called 1 the ſame name.
This figure they get from the cells of the colon.

os

37. As they brew, een ſo let them bake.

37. Tote hoc imtrifti_ tibi mme exedendam eft,Tercnt Phorm.

38. He hath brought up a bird to pick out bis
own eyes.

38. Keds reed deine.

M 3 39. To

166 Proverbial Phraſes,
39. To leave one in the br;ers [or ſuds]
40. The butcher look't for his knife, when he
had it in his mouth,
41. To baild caſtles in the air.
41. Far caſtelli in aria, Ital.

42. Buſb natural, more hair then wit.
43. No batter will ſtick to his bread. |
44. To hy and ſell and live by the loſs,
45. To be bought and ſold in a company.
46. His brains will work without barm, York.
47. She hath broken her elbow at the Church.
door. Cheſs.
It is ff of a houſewively maid that grows idle af-
1 — l -

|

|

= £

48, True blue will never ſtain. |

48. Coventry had formerly the reputation for d of
blues 3 inſomuch that true blue became a Proves tte.
nite one that was. always the ſame and like him-

ſelf,

49. He hath good blond, if he had but groats
to him, Cheſs,

49. Good parentage if he had but wealth. Groats are

great oarmeal , of which they are wont to make black

paddings,

are

ur

Proverbial Phraſes,

C.

1. V Our cake is dough.

2. His candle barnt within the ſoc het.

2. That is, he is an old man. Philoſophers. ate wont to
compare mans life to the burning. of a lamp, the vital heat
always preying upon the radical moiſture, which when it is
quite conſumed a man dies.

3. If his cap be made of wooll.

3, In former times when this Proverb firſt came in uſe,
men generally wore caps: hats were a thing hardly known
in England, much leſs hats made of Rabbers or Beyers furr.
Capping was then a great trade, and ſeverdl ſtatutes
made about it, So that if his cap were made of wooll, was

as much to ſay as moſt certainly, As ſure as the clothes on
his back.

4. He carries fire in one hand and water in the
other,
4. Alteri mana fert aquam, alteri ignem. ITI wp d
Joe ce, Bec, Plutarch. Il porte le feu & | eau, Gal,
Alteri mau fert lapidem, alter 4 panem offentat, Plaut.

5. To carry coals to Newcaſtle.

5. Soli lumen mutari : celo ftellas ; rand aquam, Cro-
cum in Ciliciam ubi ſc. maxime abundat: Notuas Athemat.
Porter des fucilles au bois, Gall.

6, To ſet the cars before the horſe.

6. Currut bovem trahit. Metter il carro inanzi a i buoi,lral.
La charrue va devant les boeufs,

M 4 7, They

168 Proverbial Phraſes,
7. They may caſt their caps at him.
7. Whentwo or more run rogethÞr, and one getsground,
be that is caſt and deſpairs to overtake, commonly caſts his
hat after the formoſt, and ſo gives over the race, So that
to caſt their caps at one, is to deſpair of catching or over»
taking him,

8. Before the cat can lick her ear.
9. They are not caterconſins.
10. You ſhall have that the cat left ch* malt.
heap. |
11, That char is char'd (as the good wife ſaid
when ſhe had hang d her husband).
11. A char in the northern dialect is any particular buſi-

neſs, affair or charge, that I commit to or incruſt another to
do, I take it to be the ſame with charge dar *Amzorhu,

12. To chew the cud upon a thing.

12. 1. e. To conſider of a thing, to revolve it in ones
mind: to .ruminate, Which is the name of this action, is
uſed in the ſame ſence both in Latine and Engliſh,

13. Children to bed and the gooſe to thꝰ fire.

13. I cannot conceive what might be the occaſion, nor
what is the meaning of this ſaying, I take it to be ſenſeleſs
and nugatory.

14. A chip of the old block.

14, Pati ef filius. He is his fathers own ſon: taken al-
ways in an ill ſence.

15. Like a chip in a pottage pot, doth neither
good nor harm,

16, To

jet

To

Proverbial Phraſes, 169

16. To clip ones wings.
16, Penyas incidere allc ui.

17. To ſet cock on hoop.

17. This is ſpoken of a prodigal, one that takes out the
ſpigger and lays it onthe rop of the barrel, drawing our the
whole veſſel at once without any intermiſſion,

18. Tohave a colts tooth in ones head.

18, It is uſually ſpoken of an old man that is wanton
and petulant.

19. To cut ones comb.
19. As is uſually done to cocks when gelded,

20. Come and welcome, go by and no quarrel,
21. Command your man, and do*c your ſelf.
22, Ask my companion if I be a thief,

23, To outrun the conſtable.

23. To ſpend more then ones allowance or income.

24. (ook:ruffian,ableto ſcald the Devil in his fea-
thers.
25. Totake counſel of ones pillow.

25, Lanuit donne conſeil, Gall, Nottw wrgends confi.
lia. Jude nox Ever dicitar, GTi 76 geren ren war
Mgt. Tols a p Sails.

26. What is got in the county, is loſt in the hun-
dred.

26. What is got in the whole ſum is loſt in particular teck-
onings; or in general, What is got one way, is loſt another.

27, Court

170 Proverbial Phyaſes,
27. Court holy- water.
27. Eaubeniſte de la cour, Gall,

28. One of the court, but none of the counſel.

29. All the craft is in the catching,

30, To ſpeak as though he would creep into ones
mouth.

31. He * never a croſs to bleſs himſelf with-
all.

32, To have cyotchets in ones crown, \

33, Here'sa great cry and but a little wool, =
the fellow ſaid, when he ſhear'd his
hogs. )

33. Aſſai romor & poca lana, Ital, a

34. I have a crow to pluck with you.
35. To lay down the cadgels.,
36. To be beſide the caſbion.

36. Aberrare d jawna.

37. To curſe with bell, book and candle. |
38. Toſtand for a cypher. |

D.

1. ToO be at dagger drawing.
2. 1 To look as though he had ſuck't his dan
through a hurdle.
3. To dance to every mans pipe or whiſtle.
4. To burn daylight. F
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ney

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his

Proverbial Phraſes, 171
5. Dead in the neſt,
6. To deal fools dole.

6. To deal all to orhers and leave nothing to himſelf.

7. Good to ſend on a dead bodies errand.
7. Tu ſareſti bon da man ur pet la morte, Ital.

8. To work ſor a dead horſe.

N To work out an old debt, or without hope of future re ·
ward,

9. If thou hadſt the rent of Dee mills, thou
would'ſt ſpend it. ( heſb.
9. Dee is the name of the river on which the city Chefer
ſtands : the mills thereon yield a very great annual rent.

10. As demure as if butter would not melt in his
mouth.

11, To get by a thing as Dickſon did by his
Aires

11, That is, over the ſhoulders, as the yulgar uſually ſay.

There is a coincidence in Hic on and diſtreſs, otherwiſe who
this Dickson was 1 know not.

12, To lay a thing in ones diſb.
13. To play the Devi i th bulmong.
14. If the Devil be a vicar, thou wilt be his
clerk,
15, Doand undo, the day is long enough.
16, Toplay the dog in the manger, not eat your
ſelf, nor letany body elſe.

16, n Td Tis worde wii Tis iv Th gr
4 KAT AIKH-

172 Proverbial Phraſes,

KTA, I U a leide ii, re mi
ir duvaunu cayur i, Lucian, Cawis in pre «
17 E come il cane del ortolano, che non mangia de cano-
i egli & non ne laſcia mangiar altri, /. Like the gard-
ners dog who will not eat the coleworts himſelf, nor ſuffer

others.

17. Dogs run away with whole ſhoulders,

17, Not of mutton, but their own, ſpoken in derifion of
1 miſers houſe,

18. Aaogslife, hunger and eaſe.
19. To dote more on't, then a fool on his bable.
20, You need not doubt, you are no Doctour,
21. To dream of a dry ſummer.
22. To dine with Dake Humphrey.

12. That is, ro faſt, ro go without ones dinner. This Duke
Humphrey was uncle to King Hewry the ſixth, and his Prote-
Rour during his minority, Duke of Gloceſter, renowned for
hoſpiraliry and good Houſe-keeping, and commonly called the
good Duke of Glocefler, Thoſe were ſaid to dine with Duke
Humphrey, who walked oat dinneg- time in the body of Saint
Panls ; becauſe it was believed the Duke Was buricd there,
Bur (ſaith D' Fuller) that ſaying is as far from truth as
they from dinner, even twenty miles off: ſeeing this Duke
was buried in the Church of Saint Alban, to which, he was a
great benefactour. Fg

23. Jo take things in Augen : of wear a. dud-
geon dagger by his ſide.

Proverbial Phraſes,

E.
I, O fall together by the ears.
1

In at one ear and out at t other,
2. Dentro da un orecchla & fuora dall altra, Ital,

3. To eat ones words.
4. He could eat my heart with garlick.

4, That is, be hates me mortally, So we know ſome of
the Americaws feaſt upon the dead carcaſſes of their enemies.

5. Neither good egg nor bird.
6. You come with your five eggs a penny, and
four of them be rotten,
7. There is as much hold of his word, as ofa wet
tel by the tail.
7. Ar teas Th fy yaw es.

8. To ſmellof bon greaſe.
8. Lacermam olere.

9. Eldenhole needs filling. Darb yſb.
9. Spoken of a lier. Elden- hole is a deep pit in the Peak of
Darbyſhire without water, fathomleſs the bottom 3 as they
would make us believe. .

10. To make both end- meet.

11. To have the better end of theſtafi,

12. He have enongh one day, when his mouth
is full of moulds.

1 3. A fleevelcls errand.

14. Find

174 Proverbial Phraſes,

14. Find you without anexc*/e, and find a hare
without a muſe.

14. Viat novit quibus eff ugit Encrates, This Eucratet was

a miller in Athens, who getting ſhare in the government of

the common-wealth, was very in ing out ſhifts
and evaſions to excuſe himſelt from doing his duty.

F,

I. To ſet a good face on a thing.

1. Faite bonne mine, Gall.

2. To come a day after the fair.
2, KaThmy mis fopTis ins. Poſt feftum venifti, Plat.

in Georg.

3. Fall back, fall edge.

4. Farewel and be hang'd, friends muſt part,

5. Farewel froſt, nothing got nor nothing loſt,
6. He thinks his fart as ſweet as musk.

7. He farts frankincenſe.

7. This is an ancient Greek Proverb, Bey aiCaromy.

Self· love makes even a mans vices, infirmities and imperfeRi-
ons to pleaſe him, Sus cui que crepitus bene alen.

8. All the fat is ithꝰ fire,

9. To feather ones neſt well.
10. Better fed then taught.
11. All fellows at foot- ball.
11. If gentlemen and perſons ingenuouſly educated, will

© wm

P Phraſes, 177
mingle themſelves with ruſticks in their rude ſports ;
muſt look for uſage ſurable ro, or rather courſer I.
thers. :

2 8

12, Jo come to fetch fire.

hitcs 13. Go fiddletor ſhives among old wives.
14. Fight dog fight bear.

14. Ne depugnes in alieno negotio,

15. To fight with ones own ſhadow.

15. Exiaueayty. To fight with ſhadows, to be afraid of
his own fancies, imagining danger or enemies, where there

are Rone.

16, To fl the mouth with empty ſpoons.

17. To havea finger ith? pie,

18, He hath more ins little finger, then thou in
thy whole body.

19. To put ones finger i*th* fire,

19. Prudens in flamma m u manum injicits, Hieron, So

pit, it is, Put not your finger needleſly in the fire. - Meddle not

with a quarrel voluntarily, wherein you need not be con-
cern'd,

lar,

- 20. To foul ones fingers with,
- 21, To have a thing at ones fingers end.
21. Scire tawquam wagues digitsſque,

22, His fingers arelime-twigs
22, Spoken of a thieviſh perſon,

23. All fire and cough.

24. To

176 Proverbial Phraſes,
24. To go through fire and water,
24.Probably from the two kinds of Ordeal, by fire and water.

25. To add fuel to the fire.
25. Oleum camino addere.

26. Allis ; that comes to net,

27. You fiſh fair and catch a frog.

28. Neither ſiſ nor fleſh, nor good red herring,
29. I have other % to fry,

30, It's the faireſt flowey in his crown or garden,
31, To giveone a flap witha foxes tail,

31. That is, rocozen or defraud,

32. To ſend one away with a flea in his ear.

2. Togli ho meſſo un pulce nel orecchio, Ital. It is not
eaſie ro conceive by them, who have not experienced it, hat
a buzzing a flea will ſeem to make there,

33. To fly at all game.

34. The vicar of fools is his ghoſty father,
35. Too free to be fat.

36. He may even go write to his friends.
36. We ſay it of a man hen all his hopes are gone.

37. To fry in his own greaſe,
38. Out of the ſing pan into the fire.

38. Cader della — nelle bragie, 1:a/. Saulter de la poile
& ſe jetter dans les braiſes, Gall, De fumo in flammam (which
Ammianus Marcellinus Cites, as an ancient Proverb hath the
ſame ſence, Evitard Charybdi in Scyllam incidere.

39, You are never well full nor faſting,

1, To

er.

hat

Proverbial Phraſes,
G.

I. O gape for a benefice,
2. Ta geeſe are ſwans.
2. Suum cui ue pulchrum,

3. Lou 're a man among the geeſe, when the gan-
der 's away. Cheſb.
4. To get over the ſhoulders.

J. All that you ger you may put in your eye, and

ſee never the worſe.
6. He beſtows his gifrs, as broom doth honey.

7. I thought I would give him one, and lend him
another,

7. 4. e. I would be quit with him.

8. Out of God: bleſling into the warm ſun.
1. 4b equis ad afinos.

9. Go forwardand fall, go backward and marr
all.

9, A fronte precipitium, à tergo lupi. Equally dangerous

to proceed or go back.

10, Tl go twenty miles on your errand firſt,
11, To give one as good as he brings, or his own,
11, Qui que vult 'dicit, que non vult audiet, Terent. Ve

ſaluã ru it reſalmaberss.

N 13. To

178 © Proverbidl Phraſes,
12, To come from little good, to ſtark nought.

12. Ab equis ad aſmosr, Mandrabali in morem, Mandrabu=
lus finding gold mines in Samos, at firſt offered and gave to
Juno a golden ram, afterward a ſilver one, then a ſmall one

of braſs, and at laſt nothing at all,

13. I' do my good will, as he ſaid that threſh'cin

his cloke,
14. Hedid me as much good, asif he had piſt in

my pottage.
15. To brag of many goodworroWs,
16. A gooſe cannot graze after him.
17. He hopes to eat of the gooſe ſhall graze on
your prave. |
18. Steal my goeſe, and ſtick me up a feather,
19, He cannot ſay ſhooh to a greſe.
20. All is not goſpel comes out of his _—_
21. I to grope her ducks.
277 each your grandamel wn — — —

21. Aguilam volare, Delphinum matare dere. Il ne faut a
pfendre aux poiſſons à nager, Gall, You muſt — th
to ſwim. Teach me to do that I know) how to do much bettet

then your ſelf, Teach your father to beget childrem.

23. To greaſe afat ſow on the A

23, On ne doit pasa gras porceau le cul oindre, Gal.
24. To greaſe a man ich? fiſt,

24. That is to put money in his hand, to fee or bribe him,

25. It goeth againſt the grain.
26, Vl either grind or fed.
27. All brings griſt to your mill,

1. To

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4

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To

Proverbial Phraſes.

H,
1. == be hail fellow well met with one.
2. It goes againſt the hair.

3. To takea hair of the ſame dog.
3+ ij. e. To be drunk again the next day.

4. You halt before you are lame.
5. To make a hand of a ching.
6. To live from hand to mouth.

6. In diem vivere : or as Perſia, Extempore vivere,

7. Two haxds ina diſn, and one in a purſe,
8. To have his hans full.

$. Tay aflez a faire enyiron les mains, Gall.

9. To hang ones ears.
9. Demitts awriculas ut inique mentis aſellus, Hotat.

10. To catch a bare with a taber.

10, On ne prend le lierre au tabourin, Gall, One can»

not catch a hare with a tabtet.

11. Set the bares head againſt the gooſe giblets.

11. Thar is, balance things, ſer one againſt another.
12, It's either a hare or a brake-buſh.

12, TaoToy F an. Aut navis aus galerey, Something if

you knew what.

N 2 13. Io

180
13.

19.

20.

20. Spoken of a ſlow perſon, There is an equivoque in the
word Hoſting, which is the name of a great family in Leicefer-
ſhire, which were Earls of Hantingtow.

2I.
22,
23.
24.
25.
26.
27.
28.
28, Ad perditam ſecurim manubrinm adjicere,

29.
30.
31.
31. Toucher au blanc, Gall. To hit the white.

Proverbial Phraſes,

To make a long harveſt of a little corn.

14. To be out of harms way.
15. To be as good eat hay with a horſe.

16.

17. To harp upon the ſame ſtring,

17. Eaudem cantilenam recinere: & ei dem chord} aber-
rare, Horat,

18,

To have ones head under his girdle. .

To hear as hogsdo in harveſt, or with your
harveſt-ears. |
He's drinking at the barrow , when he

ſhould be tollowing the plow.
He is none of the haſtings.

Too haſty to be a pariſh clerk.

He cannot hear on thatear,

He may be heard where he is not ſeen,
His heart fell down to his hoſe or heels. -
Hell is broken looſe with him.
Harrow or rake he/, and ſcum the Devil.
To help at a dead lift.

To throw the hel ve after the hatchet.

To fiſh for a herring and catch a ſprat.
To be high inthe inſtep. |
To. hit the nail o*ch* head.

32, Io

Proverbial Phraſes,

32. To hit the bird o'th*eye.
33. To hold with the hare, and run with the
hound,

3. Not much unlike hereto is that Latine one, duabus ſ«llis
alle, i. e. intertaram eſſe partium & ancipitt fide ambabus
ſervire velle, v. Eraſm, Laberius Mimus cholen into the Se-
nate by Car, coming to ſit down by Cicero, he refuſing him,
ſaid I would take you in, did we not ſit ſo cloſe Cui anguſte
ſederemus] reflecting upon Ceſar, who choſe ſo many into the
ur Senate, that there was ſcarce room enough for them all ro fir.

Laberius replied, but you were wont to ſit upon two tools
he B [duabns ſellis ſadere] meaning to be on both ſides.

34. Hobſons choice.

* 34. A man is ſaid to have Hobſons choice given him, when
he muſt cither rake what is left him, or chooſe whether he will
have any part or no. This Hobſow was a noted Carrier in
Cambridge in King Fames his time, who raiſed himſelf to a
great eftate, and did much good in the Town, relieving the
poor, and building a publick Conduit in the Market- place.

181

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35. To bring ones hogs to a fair market. .
36, He *s all honey or all t
$ As hone) man n ever brake bread,
37. ; as evertrode on ſhooe leather.
38. An honeſt man and a good bowler.
39. By hook or by crook.
39. w 2 jure quique injuris, Terent. Soit à droit ou a
tort, G |

40. They cannot ſet their hoyſes together.
41, He hath good skill in horſe-fleſh, to buy a
gooſe to ride on.
42. To throw the houſe out at the windows.
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182 Proverbial Phraſes,
43- To bring an old houſe on ones head,
44. Io dine with Duke Humphrey, v. in D.

I.

I, To be pack on both ſides,
1. AAN] , . Arutncoat, a weucher-cock.

2. To play the acł with one.
3. Jo break the ice.
. Romper il giaccio, Ital. Schalere glaciew, To begin
* — 2 thing. *

4. Sick of the idles.
5. Give him an iach, and he Il take an ell,

K.

1. TI make one (quoth Xirkbam) when he
danc*c in his clogs, Cheſ.
2. To lay the k:y under the threſhold,
3. To kil with kindneſs,
3. So the ape is ſaid to le her young ones by embra-
cing and hugging them. And ſo may many be ſaid to
whoare Tig

other thing, to clog their ſtomacks and add fuel

diſeaſes.
4. It comes by kjnd, It coſts him nothing. Kin

Kam.
5s. Kim

urging their ſick friends to eat this and that 3 |
4 to thei

«ed _ D®”Oact & ac m

pin

Proverbial Phraſes. 183

5. Kim kam.

6. Neither in Kent nor Chriſtendom,

6. That is our Engliſh Chriſtendom,of which Kent was firſt
converted to the faithzas much to ſay, as Rome and all [taly, or

the Grit cut and all the loaf beſides: not by way of it ion, as
— were no part of Chriſtendom, as ſome have under-
it. *

7. Whoſoever is king, thou wilt be his man,
8. You Id % my a- before my breeches be
down.
9. Kit after kind.
9. Achipof the old block. — de geline il aime à
grater, Gall. He was born of a hen, loves to be ſcraping,

10. Kit-careleſs, your a- hangs by trumps.

11. As very a łuave as ever pilt,

12. He tied a kxot with his tongue, that he can't
untie with all his teeth.

13. To know one from a black ſheep,

14, * one as well as the begger knows his

i
15, Better N then truſted.

L.

I. a IS nothing but ones labour for ones
pains,

| 1, Avoir T' aller pom le venir, Gall, To have ones go-

ing fox ones coming,

| 2. At

N 4

184 Proverbial Phraſes,
2. At latter Lammas.
2. Ad Gracas calendas, i. 6. never.

3. Help the lame dog over the ſtile,

4. He was lap't in his mothers ſmock.

5. To laugb in ones face, and cut his throat.

6. To laugh in ones ſleeve.

7. He can laugh and cry and both in a wind.

8. He goto Law, for the wagging of a ſtraw.

9. To have the La in ones own hand.

10. To leap over the hedge, before yon come
at the ſtile, |

11, To have the length of ones foot.

12, To lick ones ſelf whole again.

13. To lick honey through a cleft ſtick.

14. Tolie as faſt as a dog can lick a diſh,

15. To ſtand in ones own light, |

16. Like me, God bleſs the example.

17. If the lions Skin cannot, the foxes ſhall,

17. Si lexnina pellis won ſatis eſt, aſſurnda vulpina. Cou-

dre le peau de regnard a celle du lion, Gall. To attempt or

compaſs that by craft, which we cannot obtain by force. Dolu

an virtus quis in boſte requirit,

18, To ſend by Tom Long the carrier,
19. To loſe ones longing.
20. As good loſt as 3 3
p ne 'droppings of *s noſe.
21.5 He *ll not loſe the pairing of s nails.
22. Io love one as the Devil loves holy-water,
or as the cat loves muſtard,
23. See for your love, and buy for your money.
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Proverbial Phraſes, 185

To

. M ge good-cow, gives a good pail of
milk, and then kicks it down with her

foor.

2. To correct the Magnificat.

2. il. e. To cotrect that which is without any faule + or er-
tour. Aagviſi at is the — 2 Mary's hymn, Luke 1. 80
called from the firſt word of it, which is 2dagwificer, as the
other hymns are called, Beuadiſtus, and Nunc dimitis, & Te
Deum, &c. for the ſame reaſon.

3. For my peck of malt, ſet the kiln on fire.

3. This is uſed in Cheſhire and the neighbour countrey .
They mean by ir, I am little concern d in the thing mentio-
ned, I care much come on it hat will. |

4. One lordſhipis worth all his manners.

5. You know good manners, but you uſe but a
few.

6. To miſs his mark,

6. Aberrare2 ſcopo, non attingere ſcopum, or extra [copum
jaculari,

7. The gray mare is the better horſe.

7. i.e, The woman is maſter, or as weſay, wears the
breeches,

8, Much matter of a wooden platter.
8. Aut wet paris, Mira de lente, A great ſtir abour

a thing of nothing, "VA
9,

186 Proverbial Phraſes,
9. One may know your meaning by your gaping,
10. You meaſure every ones corn by your own

buſhel,
16, Tu miſuri gli altri col tuo paſſetto, Ital.

11. To bring meat in its mouth,
12. Me dale with your old ſhooes,
13. 1 p - =u mercy, I took you for a joyn'd
00

14. To ſpend his Aichaelmas rent in midſummer
moon,

15. Either by mzgke or by ſleight.

16. Mock not (quoth Afontford) when his wife
call'd him cuckold,

17. To have a mworeths mind to a thing.

19, In ancient wills, we find often mention of a monerhs

mind, and alſo of a years mind and a weeks mind. The

— becauſe the party deceaſed, uſed to appoint a
—— er funeral ſolemnicy for remembrance of him, at
times. |

18. Tell me the wes is made of a green cheeſe.
18, Quid f ce lem ruat ?

19. To ſhape a coat for the moos,
20. To make a mountain of a mole-hill.

20. Arcem ex cloaca facere, ex elephanto muſcam,

21. To ſpeak like a mouſe in a cheeſe.
22. You 'ſt have his msck for his meat.

— —

Proverbial Phraſes, te

N.

I, — him zapping, as Ae took his
mare.

1. Who this Moſs was is not very material, I ſuppoſe ſome
ſuch man might find his mare dead, and taking her to be one-
ly a fleep might ſay, Have I taken you napping ? ;

2. To ſeek a reale in a bottle of nay.

3. Imay ſee him gerd, but 1 N not ſee him bleed.

3. Parents will uſually ſay this ef prodigal or undutiful
children meaning, I will be content to ſee them ſuffet a little
hardſhip, but not any great calamity, 1%

4. As much rd on 't, as he hath of the pip, or
of a cough.

5. Tell me news.

6. More nice then wiſe.

7. To bring a w to ninepence, and ninepence
to nothing, A. 1.

7. Il fait de ſon teſton fix ſols, Gall

8. ax — a good xoſe to make a poor mans

9. To hold ones »oſe to the grindſtone.

10. To follow ones noſe.

11. Tolead one by the noſe.
11, Menar un per il naſo, Irah, This Sν e faxeatt, This

is an ancient Greek Proverb. Eraſmus ſaith, the Metaphor is
taken from Buffles, which are lead and guided by à ring =

138 Proverbid Phraſes.

in one of their noſtrils, as I have oſten ſeen in Hel: ſo we

in Ewgland are wont to lead Bears,

12. To put ones »oſe out of joint.
13. Nichilsin nine pokes, (beſt.
13. 1. e. Nothing at all.

O.
* O cut down an oak, and ſet up a ſtraw-
T berry. a

2. To have an oar in every mans boat.
3. To bring an old houſe on ones head.
4. Io rip up old ſores.
5. A man need not look in your mouth to know
how old you are.
I. Facies tua compurat annos.

6. To make orts of good hay,

7. Over ſhooes over boots,

8. A ſhive of my own loaf,

9. Apig of my own ſow,

10. To outſhoot a man in his owns bow.
11, The black ox never trode on his foot.

11. That is, he never knew what ſorrow or adverſity

meaned.

1. Make

5 = © ry

Proverbid Phraſes,
p.

I, Mac: page of your own age.
1. That is, do it your ſelf.

Io ſtand upon ones Pantofles.

To paſs the pikes,

. To pay one in his own coin.

To be in a peck of troubles.

Io take one a peg lower.

He thinks his penuy good ſilver.

Io take pepper in the noſe.

Io take phyſich before one be ſick.
10, To picka hole in a mans coat.
11, To ſhoot ata pigeon, and kill a crow.

To be in a merry pia.

Probably this might come from drinking at pins. The
Dutch and Engliſh in imitation of them, were wont to drink
our of a cup marked with certain pins, and he accounted
the man that could nick the pin; whereas to go above or be-
neach, it was a forfeirure. DofFowr Fuller Eccles. M. bb. 3.
9. 17. Boe *

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12. Pigs play on the organs. a
13. Pigs fly in the air wich their tails forward.
f 14. Not too high for the pie, nor too low for
the crow,
15. If there be no remedy, then welcome Plvall.
16. As ſurely as if he had piſt on à nettle.
c 17, He Il play at ſmall game rather then ſtand out.
| 18, To

*

190 Proverbial Phyofes.

18. To be toſt from poſt to pillory.

19. To 7 to pot.

20. To be inthe ſamę Predicament.

21. Provendey pricks him.

22, To come in pudding time.

23. To no more purpoſe thento beat your heels
againſt the ground, or wind.

24. To as much 7 as the geeſe flurr on
the ice. Cheſs

25. To — much purpeſe as to give a gooſe hay.
C

PIES SD

26. To pour water into a ſieve,
26. Cribro aquam haurire,

Q. 'E
To be ina 838

R.
I. E is better with a yake then afork.
2. To reckon without ones hoſt,

3. No remedy but patience.

4. Set your at reſt.

5. Give me roaſtmear, and beat me with the ſpit,

Cor run it in my belly.

6. You are in your roaſtmeat, when others art
Incheirfod.

6. Friuſquam mallaris exegriar.

7. To

ay,

Proverbid Phraſes. 191
7. To rob the ſpittle.

8. Herobs Peter to pay Paul.

$. IU oſte 3 $. Pierre pour donner à S. Pol. Gall,

9. He makes Robin Hoods penny- worths.

9. This may be uſed in a double ſence , either he ſells
things for half their worth: Robin Hood afforded rich penny<
— of his plundred goods; or be buys things at what
price he pleaſes, The owners were glad to get any thing of
Robin Hood, who otherwiſe, would have taken their goods
for nothing,

10. To have rods in piſs for one.

11, You gather a 704 for your own breech,

11. Telporte le baſton dont à ſon regret le bat on, Gall,
Oir” aim lα TE $6 drip Gag 14% 74 jy. Hefiod.
EM ozumy Th i\lwlw xa; In trum hin capes
lauam deducts,

12. Right Roger, your ſow is good mutton.
13. To twiſt a rope of ſand. +
13. Ex Tis djppps goivioy xi.

14. Togiveone a Rowland for an Oliver,
14. That is, ad pro quo, to be even with one.

15. He roſe on his right ſide,

16, To run through thick and thin,

17. To res the wild gooſe chace,

18, He that run may read.

19. Ithought I had given her rope enough, (aid
Pedley, when he hang'd his mare. Yorkfs. ©

20, It J — rain pottage, he would want his

iſh.

1. More

192 Proverbial Phraſes.

f

8.

*

Ore-/acks to the mill.

To come ſailing ina ſows ear.

. Toſcapeaſcowring.

Lou make me /cratch where it doth not itch.
. The ſea complains it wants water.

Io ſet up ones ſtaff,

6. i. . To reſolve to abide in any place.

7. To ſet up his fail to every wind.

7. Faire yoil à tout vent, Gall. Evanuare ad omnem an-
ram, Nazianz.

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8. Sink or ſwim.
9. To caſt a ſheeps eye at one,
10. To caſt an old fooe after one.
11. Not worth ſbe-buckles.
12. To make a fair bow in a countrey Church.
13. To „ing the ſame ſong.

13. Cantilenam eandem canere, Terent, Phorm, Crambe
bis colta, — — ungrateful then the
ſame thing over

over,

14. Sirrah your dogs,

15. Toſetall at 6x and ſeven,
16. To fit upon ones skirts.

17. Slow and ſure. |

18, I /mellarat,

10. T0

ſai

Proverbial Phraſes.
19. Todrive ſnails, A ſnails gallop,
1 9.14:fndineus gradus,Plaur, Ficiftis cochleam tarditate,1dem.

193

20. Tell me it ſnows,

21. Io take in ſnuff.

22. To have a ſeft place in ones head.

23. Fair and /oftly, as Lawyers go to heaven.
24. As ſoftly as foot can fall,

ooh Suſpen ſos pedes ponere, Quintil, Smſpenſo grada ire,
erent,

25. It works like ſope in a ſows tail.
26, Totakea w_ ſow by the ear.
27. A ſow to a fiddle,

Th 27. Or Avens. Aſmms ad lyram.

28. Goodto make a poor mans ſow.
28. Ilſeroit bon truye A pauyre homme, Gall.

29. To ſow his wild oats.
30. To be tied to the ſowye apple-tree.
ch. 30. i. e. To be married to an ill husband.

31. To call a ſpade a ſpade.
32. Lou never ſpeck but your mouth opens.
33. Spick and ſpan new.

17 ſpica an eat of corn and the ſpawn of fiſhes,

FE

34. Spare at — ſpigget, and let it out at the
ole.

34+ E tien ſu dalla ſpina & ſpande dal cone, Ital.
35. He

194

Proverbial Phraſes,
35. He hath ſit his venome.
36. Spit in your hand and take better hold,

37. To make one a ffalking horſe.

38. What? ſtarve in a cooks ſhop.

t. Endurer la ſoif aupres d' une fontaine, Gal. Mourir
de faim aupres de meſtier, Gall This may be made a ſen»
tence by putting it imperatiyely, Never ſtarve, &c,

39. To ſtick by the ribs.

40. To ſtick together like burrs,

41. The more you ftir the worſe you ſtink,

41. Plus fetent ſtercors mota. Mi) uveiv xaxby ci

42. To ftrain ata gnat and ſwallow a camel,
43. To fumble at a ſtraw and leap over a block,

42, 43. Theſe two Proverbs have the ſame ſence. The
former is uſed by our Saviour, Matth. 23.

44. When two Sundays meet,
44, Ad Gracks calendar.

45. To —_— an ox, and be chok't with the
rai,

46. He hath ſwallowed a ſpider, i. c. plaid the
bankrupt,

47. To ſweep before ones own door.

48. Good to ſetch a ſicł man ſorrow, or a dead
man wo. Cheſh. .

TX

＋ *

Proverbial Phraſes,

T.

I, O take from ones right ſide, to give to
ones left.

2. Tell you a tale, and find you ears.

3. A tale of a tub.

4. To tell tales out of ſchool,

5. To talk like an Apothecary,

6. Tenterden ſteeple 's the cauſe of Goodwin:
ſands.

w
6. This Proverb is uſed when an abſurd and ridiculous
reaſon is given of any ng in queſtion : an account of
the original whereof 1 find in one of Biſhop Latimers
ſermons in theſe words, M Mere was once ſent with com-
miſſion into Kent, to try out, if it might be, what was
the cauſe of Goodwins ſands, and the ſhelf which ſtopped
up Sandwich haven, Thither comerh M' Afoore , and cal-
leth all the Countrey before him, ſuch as were thought
to be men of experience, and men that could of likely-
hood belt ſarisfie him of the matter concerning the ſtop-
ping of Sandwich haven, Among the reſt came in before
im an old man with a white head, and one that was
thought to be little leſs then an hundred years old. When
M* Moore ſaw this aged man, he thought it expedient to
hear him ſay his mind in this matter (for being ſo old a
man, it was likely that he knew moſt in that preſence, oc
— So M* Moore called this old aged man unto him
and ſaid, Father (ſaid he) tell me if you can, what is the
cauſe of the great ariſing of the ſands and ſhelves here
about this haven , which ſtop it up, ſo that no ſhips can
arrive here, You are the oldeſt man I can eſpie in all
this company, ſo that if any man can tell any cauſe of it,
you of all likely hood can ſay moſt to it, or at leaſtwiſe
DS 3 more

196 Proverbial Phraſes,

more then any man here aſſembled. Yea forſooth, good
M. Moore, quoth this old man, for I am well rich an
hundred years old, and no man here in this company any
thing near my age. Well then (quoth M. Moore) bow
ſay you to this matter? what think you to be the cauſe
of theſe ſhelves and ſands, which ſtop up Sawdwich hayen ?
Forſooth fir (quoth he) I am an old man, I think that
Tenterton ſteeple is the cauſe of Goodwins ſands, For 1
am an old man fir (quoth he) I may remember the build.
ing of Te/tertow ſteeple , and I may remember when there
was no ſteeple at all there, And before that Tenterton
ſteeple was in building, there was no manner of talking
of any flats, or ſands that ſtop't up the haven 3 and there.
fore I think that Tewntrrron ſteeple is the cauſe of the de»
cay and deſtroying of Sandwich haven. Thus far the

Biſhop.

7. There's a thing in't (quenk thefellow) when
he drank the diſh-clour,

8. To ſtand upon thorns,

9. . Thrift and be are at a fray.

10. When thrift *s inthe field, he's in town,

11. He ſtrook at 756, but down fell Tom.

12. His tongue s no ſlander,

13. Your teng se runs before your wit,

14, His tongue runs on wheels Cor at random]

15. To have a thing at ones rongaes end, or at the

tip of ones tongue.
16, Tooth and nail,

16. Manibus pedibij ſque, Remis vel i ſque,

17. From top to toe.

18. Top ſie turvie.

19. 1'de not teach him with a pair of tongs.
20. 7.

fa

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any
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that
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Proverbial Phraſes, 197
20. To it again, no body comes.

20, Nemo unt inſequitur anus impellit, Eraſmus & Plato-
nez who tells us that this Proverb continues to this day in
common uſe (among the Dach I ſuppoſe) to ſigniſie that
it is free for us to ſtay upon any bulineſs | fimmorari in re
aliqua, ]

21. 5 him no further then 1 can ſling
im.

22. You may tr» him with untold gold,

23. To turn with the wind, or tide.

24. To tern over anew leaf.

25. To turn cat in pan.

26. In the :winkling of an eye.

27. To ſtop two gaps with one buſh.

28. To ſtop to mouths with one morſel.

27, 28, &c. Dua linit parietes ei dem fidelis. nici
lis duos parare generos: This is a modern Proverb, but de-
ſerves (ſaith Eraſmus) to be numbred amongſt the ancient

ones. I find it among the Frewch, D' une fille deurx
gendres.

29. To kill two birds with one ſhaft Cor ſtone, ]
29. D' une pierre faire deux coups, Gall, Di un' dono
far duoi amici, al. To make two friends with one gift.

30, To carry two faces under one hood.
30. I] a une face à deux viſages, Gall,

31. To have two ſtrings to ones bow.
31. I! fait bien avoir deux chordes en ſon arc, Gall. This

may be made a ſentence by a to it, Ir is good, or ſuch
like words, An. .

O 3 32. Two

198 Proverbial Phraſes,

32. Two hands in adiſh, apd one in a purſe,
33. To have thwitten a mill-poſt to a pudding
prick.

U.
1. To nouriſh a viper in ones boſom.

1, Tu ti allevi la biſcia inſeno, hal. Ogi lat Y Avis
Jdc, da yora;, Theocr. in hodoep. Chlalrum is fun
— Eſt apud Æſopum Apologus de ruſtico quodam in

nc tem.

2. Nothing but «p and ride?
3. Jo be «p the Queen apple- tree.
A. No ſooner «p, but the head in the Aumbrey,
and noſe in the cup.

W.

1 look to ones water.
2. To caſt water into the Thames.

2, Lumen foli mutuari, Kc.

3. You can't ſee green cheeſe, but your teeth

muſt water,
4. Awarrant ſeal'd with butter,
J. 1'll not wear the wooden dagger.
6. rar a horn, and blow it not.

7. To

im . Rr 1 e 1

ng

2

S's

.

Proverbial Phraſes. 198:
7. To, come home by weeping croſs,

7. This weeping croſs which gave. occaſion to this phraſe,
is about two miles diſtant from the town of <1 :

8. Without welt or guard,

9. All ſhall be well, and Jack ſball have Jyll,
10. With a wer finger.

10, Levi brachio & molli brachio,

11. Whift and catch a mouſe,
12, Tolet leapa Whiting.
12, 1. 6. To let ſlip an opportunity.

13. All this wind ſhakes no corn.
14. Either win the horſe or loſe the ſaddle.

14. Aut ter ſex aut tres teſſera. H Tels iF i Tpdis wiCor.
The ancients uſed to play with three dice, ſo that thrice fix
muſt needs be the beſt, and three aces the worſt chance, They
called three aces fimply three dice, becauſe they made no more
then the number of the dice. The ace fide was left empty with-
out any ſpot at all, becauſe to count them was no more then
to count the dice, Hereupon this chance was called, Fails i-
nans, the empty chance.

15. To have one in the wing.
16. Mis it and wear it.
17. Keep your wind, &c. v. breath,
18. Heſhews all his wit at once.
19. God ſend you more wit, and me more
money.
20. You were born when wir was ſcant.
21. Your wits are on wooll gathering.
04 22. You

200 Proverbial Phraſes.
22. Yougive the wolf the weather to keep.
22, Ha dato la pecora inguardis al lupo, Ital. 'Ovem laps

commiſiſti.

23. To have a wolf by the ears.

23, This is alſo a Latine Proverb, Lapum awribus tenere,
When a man hath a doubtful buſineſs in hand, which it is 7
equally hazardous to purſue or give over 3; 28 it is to hold or let
go a wolf which one hath by the ears,

24. You cannot ſee wood for trees.
25. A word and a blow.
26. When he ſhould work, every finger is a

thumb, ,

27. The world is well amended with him. —
28. To have the world in a ſtring, of
29. Not worthy to carry his books after him. di
30, Not worthy to be named the ſame day. þ
31, Not worthy to wipe his ſhoots. 4
29, 30, 31. Indignus qui illi matellam porrigat. =:
Diſpeream ſi tu Pyladi praftare matellam tc
Dignuses, aut porcos paſcere Pirithoi, Martial, -

32, Not Worthy tocarry guts after a Bear, 4

Proverbial

|

[

Proverbial Similies, in which the qua-
lity and ſubject begin with the ſame letter.

I. S$ bare as a birds arſe.
2. As blind as a beetle or bat.

2. Talpi cacior, As blind as2 mole, though indeed a mole
be not abſolutely blind; bur hath perſect eyes , and thoſe
not covered with a membrane, as ſome have _—_—_— bur
open and to be found without fide the head, it one ſearch
diligently, otherwiſe they may eaſily eſcape one, being ve-
ry mall and lying hid in the furr. So that it muſt be
granted, that a mole ſees but obſcurely , yet ſo much as is
lufficient for her manner of living, being moſt part under

round, Hypſea cacior , This Hypſas was a woman famous
tor her blindneſs, Threſia cecior, The fable of Tirefias, and
how he came to be blind, is * known. Leberide cacior.
Eſt autem Leberis exuvie froe ſpolius m ſerpenti3 , in quo
parent effigies duntaxat oculorum , ac . —
temui ſi ma qua ſerpentum oc uli preteg unt ur.

3, To bluſh like a black Cog,

4. As bold as blind bayard,

5. As bold as Beauchamp.

5. Of this firname there were many Earls of Warwick,
amongſt whom (ſaich Doctour Fuller) I conceive Thomas
the firſt of that name, gave chief occahon to this Proverbs
who in the year 1346, with one Squire and fix archers,
toughs in manner with an hundred armed men ar
+20 Hogges

202 Proverbial $imilies,

Hogge in Normandy and overthrew them, fla Nor-
mans, and giving the whole fleet means = Pk

6. As brisk as a body louſe.

7. As buſie as a bee.

8. As clear as cryſtal.

9. As cold as charity.

10. As common as (olemay hedge.
11. As coy as Crokeys mare,

12. As dead as a door nail.

13. As dull as dun in the mire.

14. To feed like a farmer.

15. As ſine as five pence.

16. As fit as à fiddle.

17. As flat as à flounder.

18. As hard as horn.

19. As high as three horſe loaves.
20. As high as a hog all but the briſtles,

19, 20, Spoken of a dwarf in detiſion.

21. As hungry as a hawk, or horſe.
22, AS 8 28 a kite, all you cannot eat you'll
ide.

23. As lazy as Lndlams dog, that lean't his
head againſt a wall to bark,

24. As mad asa March hare,

25. Asmerryas the maids,

26. As nice as a nuns hen.

27. As plain as a packſaddle.

28. As proud as à Peacock.

29. As ſeaſonable as ſnow in ſummer.
30. As

Proverbjal Similias, 203

30, As ſoſt as ſilk.

31 As true as a turtle to her mate.

32. As warm as wooll.

33. As wiſe as Walthams calf, that ran nine
miles to ſuck a bull,

34. As wiſe as a wiſp, or woodcock.

35. As welcome as water into a ſhip.

36. As weak as water.

Others.

A angry as a waſp.
As bald as a coot.
. As bitter as gall,
As black as the Devil.
. As buſie as a hen with one chicken,
As buſie as 2 _ wife at oven.
As clear as a bell, |

7 - wu principally of a ſound without any jarring

Ager

ll
8. As clear as the ſun.

Wn 9. As comfortable as matrimony.
10. It becomes him as well as a cow doth a cart.
ſaddle.
11. To ſtrut Cor ſtrag] like a crow in a gutter.
12. As crowſe as a new waſhen louſe.

12, Thisis 4 Scotch and Northern Proverb. Crowle fig-
mines brisk, lively.

13. As

104 Proverbial Similies,
13. As dark as pitch,
13. Blackneſs is the colour of darkneſs,

14. Asdead as a herring.

14. A herring is ſaid to die immediately after it is taken
out of its element, the water 3 that ir dies very ſuddenly af-
ter my ſelf can witneſs : ſo likewiſe do Pilchards, ſhads, and
t he reſt of that tribe.

15. As dizzy as a gooſe.
16. As like as a dock to a daiſie.

16. That is very unlike.

17. As dull as a beetle,
18. As drunk as a begger.

18. This Proverb begins now to be diſuſed, and people in
ſtead of it are ready to ſay, As drunk as a Lord: {6 much
hath that vice (the 'more is the pity) prevail'd among the
Nobility and Gentry of late years.

19. As falſe as a Scot,

19. I hope that nation generally deſerves not ſuch an im-
puration ; and could wiſh that we Engliſh men were leſs par-
tial to our ſelves, and cenſorious of our neighbours,

20. As faſt as hops.

21. As fat as a hen i'ch* forehead.

22. As fierce as a gooſe,

23. As fit as a pudding for a friers mouth.
£24. As fit as a ſaddle for a ſow.

25. As fit as a ſhoulder of mutton for à ſick

horſe.

26, As flattering as a ſpaniel,

27. As

Proverbial Similies. 205
27. As fond of it, as an ape of a whip and a

27. That is, not ar all fond, but the concrary ; like chat,
1 love him as the Devil loves holy-water, i. e. hate him.

af. 28. As like as four pence to a groat.

ind 29. As free as a blindman is of his eye.

30. As free as an ape is of his tail.

31. As free as a dead horſe is of farts,

32. As full as an egg is of meat, or as a toad
of poiſon.

33. As glad as a fool of a fair day.

34. As good as George of Green,

34. This George of Greew , was that famous Pinder of
Wakefield, who fought with Robin Hood and little Few both
together, and got the better of them; as the old ballade
tells us.

FEE

35. As good as ever water wet.

36. As greedy as a dog.

37. As good as any between Bag ſbet and Baw-
waw :

* 37. There u but the breadth of a ſtreet between theſe ty o.

38. As haſty as à ſheep, ſo ſoon as the tail is
up, the tis out.

39. As hail as a roch. Fiſh whole,

40. As hot as a toſt.

41. As hungry as a church- mouſe. *

k 42. A conſcience as large as a ſhipmans hoſe.

43. As lazy as the tinker, who laid down his

budget to fart.

44. 4

206 Privtybial Similies.
44. As leanas a rake,

45. As light asa fly.

46. To lick it up like Lim hay.

46. Lim is a Village on the river Merſey, that parts ch.
ſhire and Lancaſhire, where the beſt hay is gotten.

47. As like one, as if he had been ſpit out of
his mouth. | |
48. As like as an apple to an oiſter.
49. As like as nine pence to nothing.
50. As lecherous as a he-goat.
51. No more like then chalk and cheeſe.
52. Io lock like the picture of ill luck.
53. To look like a ſtraind hair in a can.
54. To look on one, as the Devil looks over
Lincols.
$4. Some referre this to Lincoln minſter, oyer which when
firſt finiſhed , the Devil is ſuppoled to have looked with a
torve and tetrick countenance, as envying mens coſtly de-
yotion ; but more probable it is, that it took its riſe from a

ſmall image of the Devil, ſtanding on the top of Lincoln
Colledge in 0xford. 7

55. As loudas a horn,

$6. As gentle Cor mild] as a lamb.

57. As melancholy as a gibd cat,

58. As merry as a cricket.

59. As nimble as an eel,

60. As old as Paul [or Pauls ſteeple.]

61. As plain as the noſe on à mans Rec:

62. As poor as 50h.

62. This ſimilitude runs through moſt languages: In the
| Univerſity

Proverbial Similies, 207
Univerſity of Cambridge, the young ſcholars are wont to call
chiding Jobing,

63. As proud as a cock on his own dunghil,
$ Che. 63, Videinter ſeatentias,

64. To quake like an aſpen leaf.
It of 65. Toquake like an oven.

66. As rich as a new ſhorn ſheep.

67. As right as a ratns horn,

68. As rotten as a t

69. As rough as atinkers budget.

70. As ſafe as a mouſe in a malt-heap.

71. As ſafe as a crow in a gutter.

72. As ſafe as a thief in a mill.
wer 73. As ſcab'd as a cuckow,

74. To ſcornathing as a dog ſcorns a tripe,
rhen 75. As ſharp as a thorn,
th a 76. As much fib'd as fieve and ridder, that grew
de- both in a wood together.

coln 76. Sib'd that is a kin,

77. As ſlender in the middle as a cow inthe waſte.
78. As ſoftly as foot can fall.

79. To ſtink like a pol, cat.

80, As ſtrong as muſtard.

81. As ſure as a gun, [or as death.]

82 A ſure as k or Exchequer pay.

$82, This was a Proverb in Queen —— time, the

credit of the Bxchequer beginning in, and g with
der reign. |

83. Auſure as a juglers box. 84. As

208
84.
85.
86.
87.
88.

89.
90.
91.
92.
93.
+1

97.
96.

*

+6, That is, a boiler of ſalt;wych houſes are ſalt houfes, ani
walling is boiling.

97. As fair as Lady Done. (beſh.
97. This Lady Done was ſome beautiful Lady of the fami-
ly (I ſuppoſe) of the Earl of Derby.

98. As good as gooſe-skins, that never man had 5;

Proverbial Similies.
As ſure as louſe in boſom, Cheſs.

As ſure as a louſe in Pomfret. Tori ſt.
As ſure as the coats on ones back.

As ſurly as a butchers dog. |
As ſweet as honey; or as a nut. 6
As freely as St Robert gave his cow.

This Robert was a Knaresburgh Saint.

As true as God is in heaven.

As tender as a Parſons leman.

As wanton as a calf with two dams.

As well worth it as a thief is worth a rope.
As white as the driven ſnow.

As wild as a buck.

As wily as a fox.

To ſcold like a wych- waller. Cheſb.

OE Baco s

enough of. Cheſs. for

99. To feed like a freeholder of Macklesfield, *

who hath neither corn nor bay at Air
chaelmas, Cheſs.

59. This Macklesfils or Metfeld is a ſwall: marke-
town and Burrougb in Cheſhire, | 0

100. Like

who for a ſm
officious and aſſiduous in their attendance then their

deſire, 8. Amthouy is notoriouſly known to be the patron of
bogs, having a pig for his page in all pictures. I am nor ſo
we

Proverbial Similies, 209
100. Like Goodjers pig, never well but when he is
doing miſchief. Cheſs.
101, As much wit as three folks, two fools and
- a mad man. Cheb.

| 102, He ſtands like Mumpha card, who was

hang'd for ſaying nothing. Cheſs.

103. Like the Parſon of Saddle worth, who could
read in no book but his own, Cheſs.

104, To come home like the Parſons cow, with
a calf at her foot. Chef. |

105. To leap like a cock ata black-berry,

105 . Spoken of one that endeayours, bur can do no harm.
106, To follow one like a S* Anthoxies pig.

106, It is 2 — to ſuch as have ſervile ſaleable ſouls,
reward will lacquay it many miles, being more

read in his legend as to give the reaſon of it, but 1 date

lay there is no good one.

107. To uſe one like a Few,

107, That poor nation was intolerably abuſed by the En»
gli, while they lived in this land, eſpecially at Lowdow on
Shrove-tueſday. Thus ir came to paſs, which God fr
foretold, that they ſhould become a by-word and 3

among all nations. | |

Prover .

Proverbial Rhythmes and old ſaws.

| ing crab of the wood is ſawce very good
For the crab of the ſea,

Butthe wood of the crab is ſawce for a drab,
That will not her husband obey.

Snow is white and lies in the dike,

And every man lets it lie: /
Pepper is black and hath a good ſmack,

Andevery man doth it buy,

My horſe piſſeth whey, my man piſſeth amber, E
My horſe is for my way, my man is for my chamber.
$

The bigher the plum-tree, the riper the plum.
Thericher the cobler, the blacker bis chumb,

When Adam delv'd and ve ſpan,
Where — then the gentleman : ,
Upſtart a churl and gathered good,

And thencedid ſpring our gentle blood.

Wich a red man reade thy read;
With a brown man break thy bread:

7 BY 2 —

Proverbial RI.
At a pale man draw thy knife,
Froma olack man keep thy wite,

Bounce buckram, velyet's dear,
Chriſtmas comes but once a year;

And when it comes it brings good chear,
But when it's gone it's never the near.

He that buys land buys many ſtones,

He that buys fleſh buys many bones

He that buys eggs buys many ſhells,

But he that buys good ale buys nothing elſe,

Jack Sprat he loved no fat, and his wife ſhe lov*d ao
lean : N
And yet betwixt them both, they lickꝰt the plattets

clean.

Ne that hath it and will not keep it,

He that wants it and will not ſeek it,
ber. He that drinks and is not dry,

Shall want money as well as J.

The third of November the D. of Yendoſwe paſt the
water,

The fourth of November the Queen had a daughter,

The fifth of November we ſcapꝰt a great ſlaughter,

And the fixth of November was the next day after,

A man of wordsand not of deeds,
ls like a garden full of weeds.

P 2 Our

212 Proverbial Rhythmes,

Our fathers which were wondrous wiſe,
Did waſh their throats, before they waſh't their eyes,

When thou doſt hear a toll or knell,
Then think upon thy paſſing bell.

If Fortune favour I may have her, for 1
If Fortune fail you may kiſs her tail, a
her,

A red beard anda black head,
Catch him with a good trick and take him dead.

He that hath plenty of good ſhall have more;
He that hath bur little he ſhall have leſs,
And he that hath right nought, right nought ſhall

poſleſs.

about her,
go without

Cardinal ey.
A — for a fool, and a rod for a ſchool,
Is always in good ſeaſon.

Will. Summers.

A haſter and a rope for him that will be Pope,
Without all right or reaſon,

The ſhape of a good greyhound,
A head like a ſnake, a neck-like a drake,
A back like a beam, a belly like a bream,
A foot likea cat, a tail like arat,

r

Proverbial Rhythmes,
If one knew how good it were, ®
To eat a hen in Janivere;
Had he twenty in the flock,
He d leave but one to go with the cock.

Children pick up words as pigeons peaſe,
And utter them again as God ſhall pleaſe,

A miſcellany of ruſtick and other Pro-
verbs, omitted in the precedent Catalogues,

H E is pattring the Devils Pater neſter.
Spoken of one that mumbles and grumbles to himſelf,

To caſt up old ſcores.

I*il warrant you for an egg at Eaſter.

It may ſerve with an onion,

Every peaſe bath its veaze, and a bean fifteen,

He looks like a bull, that hath beſhit the fair.

You are a hot ſhor.

Crack me that nut, quoth Bumſted,

Haveamong you blind harpers.

Io take heart of grace.

Sweet heart and bagꝑ- pudding.

To ſhoot wide of the mark.

To be Jack in an office.

To ſpin a fair thread,

To play leaſt in ſight.

To walk by owl light,

Tittle tattle, give the gooſe more =

Many women many words, many geeſe many t

*Tis midſummer moon with you, s. e. you are mad,
You

* 1. 0 215

You 'I make honey of a dogs-t---

He's ſick of the Lombard" feaver : or of the idles.

Dab, quoth Dam kia, when he hit his wife on the A
wich a pound of butter.

Nipence nopence half a groat wanting two pence.

When the Devil is blind,

Youtwo are finger and thumb,

Gramercy fourty pence, Zack, Noble is dead.

prate is prate, but it's the duck lays the eggs.

I'll not creep into her A to bake in her oven.

Better have it then hear of it.

Little difference between a feaſt and a belly-full,

Such a reaſon piſt my gooſe,

To be hide-bound, an Hungarian, a Curmudgeon.

Tolook — an — ma 2

1H not hang all m s on orlg. 5, e. give
all to prey bg : * i 5

He would live as long as old Roſs of Pottern, who
ivd till all the world was weary of him,

Let him ſet up ſhop on Goodwins ſands. |

When you have counted your cards, you *ll find
you have gained but littſe.

He hath played wily beguil'd with himſelf,

Catch that catch may.

Four farthings and a thimble make a tailours pocket
gingle.

You ſhall have as much fayour at Billings-gate for
a boxon the ear,

I care no more for it, then a gooſe-t-- for the Thames,

She 's as quiet as a waſp in ones noſe. a

To leave boys play, * to blow point.

4

It

216 Proverbs,

It melts like butter ina ſows tail,
I know what I do when Ldrink.
If I be hang'd VIl chooſe my gallows.
Go teach your grandame to ſard.
Stretching and yawning leadeth to bed.
Spit in his mouth and make him a maſtiff.
There I caught a knave in a purſe· net.
A black ſhooe makes a merry hearr. ;
He that hath eatena Bear-pye, will always ſmell of
the garden.
A Hoberdehoy, half a man and half a boy.
She s looſe in the hilts.
He capers like a fly in a tar-box.
Drink off your drink, and ſteal no lambs.
Six awls make a ſhooemaker.
A match quoth Hat, when he got his wife by the
breech,
To handle without mittins,
To order without a Conſtable.
Toa cows thamb. To a hairs breadth,

—

Drinking Phraſes.

Ick your diſh.
Wind up your Bottom.
— off your duſt.
Hold up your dagger hand.
To bang the —.—
There 's no deceit in a brimmer:

Proverbs, 217

Sup Simon, the beſt is at the bottom,

The daſnell dawcock ſits among the Doctours. Cor-
chorus inter olera. Corc horus is a ſmall herb of
little account; ſome take it to be the male Pim-
pernel, beſides which there is another ſort reſem-
bling Mallows, much eaten by the Egyprians.

When the Devil is a hog, you ſhall eat bacon.

To make a hog or a dog of a thing.

of To burſt atthe broad fide.

To ſit like a wire-drawer under his work. Torkſb.

He hath no more wit in his head, then thou in both
thy ſhoulders. Tork.

lam very wheamow, ſaidyold woman, when ſhe ſtept
into the milk-bowl. 7orb, wheamow,z.e. nimble.

Trick for trick anda ſtone in thy foot beſides, qu

ie one pulling a ſtone out of his ſhares foot, when ſhe.

bit him on the back, and he her on the buttock,

The difference between the poor man and the rich
is, that the poor walketh to get meat for his ſto-
mack, the rich a ſtomack for his meat.

Put a miller, a weaver and a tailour in a bag and
— them, the firſt that comes out will be a
wy *

Peter of Food, Church and millsare all his. Cheſßb.

Macklesfield meaſure, heap and thruſt, Cheſs.

Harry *s children of Leigh, never an one like ano-
ther. Cheſs.

Pe bout as Barrow was. Cheſb. bout, that is without it.

Laſſes are lads leavings. Cheſh.

Right maſter right, four nobles a year is a crown a
quarter, Che/h, |

Hold

218 Proverbs,

Hold the diſh while I ſhed my pottage.

It's a ſorry gooſe that will not baſt her ſelf.

She hath been at Zoxdox to call a ſtrea a ſtraw, and
a waw a wall, Cheſs. |

A ſpur in the head, is worth two in the heel.

To have ſorrow to his ſops.

A kindly Aver will never make a good horſe,

Well rhythm*d Tutor, brains and ſtairs,

Sick of the mulligrubs with eating chop't hay,

Share and ſhare like, ſome all, and ſome never a
whit, Leonina ſociet as.

A ſeaman if he carries a mill- ſtone will have a quait
out of it, Spoken of the common mariners, if they
can come at things that may he eat or drunk.

As plum as a juggle-mear. Devonſs. i. e. As ſoft

- a$a quagmire, *

Neither rhythme nor reaſon.

He is a man every inch of him.

To killa man with a cuſhion,

at

Out of Dodctour Fullers Worthies of
England, ſuch as are not entred already in
the Catalogues,

F Barkſhire.

He Vicar of Bray, will be Vicar of Bray
ſtill,

Bray is 2 village well known in Berkſhire , the vivaci-
ous Vicar whereof living under King Henry the eighth,
— Edward the ſixth, Queen Mary and Queen Eligabeth;
was firſt a Papiſt, then a Proteſtant then a Papiſt then a Prete-
ſtant again, This Vicar being tax't by one for being a turn»
coat, not ſo (ſaid he) for I always kept my Principle; which
is this, to live and die Vicar of Bray,

Bedfordſhire,

A. plain as Dunſtable road.

It is applied to things plain and ſimple, withour either
welt or guard ro adorn them; as alſo ro matters eaſe and
obvious to be found our withour any difficulty or direction.
Such this road being broad and besten, as the confluence of
many leading to Londew from the North and North-weſt

parts

220 Proverbs.
res of this land, I conceive beſides this, there is an allu-⸗
on to the firſt ſyllable of this name Punfable, for there
are other roads in England as broad, plain and well beaten
as this.

As crooked as Crawley brook,

This is a nameleſs brook ariſing about Wobonrn, ranni
by Crawley and falling immediately into the Onſe, a river
more crooked and Aa, then ir, running above eighty
miles, in eighteen by land.

The Bayliff of Bedford is coming.

The Owuſe or Bedford river is ſo called in Cambridgeſbire
becauſe w Do _ rain, — in * winter — it 8
reſts the Iſle of Ely with an inundation, brioging down ſud-
denly — of water.

Buckinghamſhire,

Buckingtanwire bread and beef.
The former as five, the latter as fat in this, as in any other

Here if you brat a buſt, it's edi you'll ſtart 4
thief.

No doubt there was juſt occaſian for this Proverb at the
original thereof, which then contained a Satyrical truth, pro»
portioned to the place before it was reformed ; whereof chus
our great Antiquary, It was altogether able in time!
paſt — en of trees, until Leoſſtane Abbot of 8 Albans did
cut

them becauſe they yielded a place of refuge for thievth
But this Proyerb is now 2m 5 ＋ — thereof
Buckinghamſhire affording as many maiden Aſſixes as - any
County of equal populoulneſs,

Cam-

Proverbs.

lu-

Cambridgeſhire,

. petit æquales Or equalia.

15 That is (as DoRour Fuller expounds it) either in reſpect of
a their Commons; all of the ſame meſs have equal ſhare : or
7 in reſpect of extraordinaries, they are all jovoyvuCoxc, club
alike or in reſpe& of Degree, all of the ſame degree are
fellows well met. The ſame degree levels, although of diffe-

rent age.

u- Cambridgeſhire camel-.

I look upon this as a nickname groundlefly faſtned on this
countrey men, perhaps becauſe the three firſt lerrers are rhe
ſame in Cambridge and camel. I doubt whether it had any
reſpe& to the Fen men ſtalking upon their ſtilts, who then in
— 6 length of their legs do ſomething teſemble that

alt,

ol An Henry: ſophiſter.

So they are called, who Vfter four years ſtanding in the
Univerſity, ſtay themſelyes from commencing batchelours of
— to render them in ſome Colledges more capable of pre-
erment. X

That tradition is ſenſeleſs(and inconſi ſtent with his Princel
magnificence) of ſuch who that K ing Henry the eight
coming to Cambridge, ſtayed all the Sophiſters a year, who
expected that a year of grace ſhould have been given to them.
More probable it is, that becauſe chat King is commonly con-
ceived of great ſtrength and ſtature, that theſe Se- Hen-
riciani were elder and bigger then others. The truth is this,
in the reign of King Heuy the eighth, aſteł the deſtruction
of Monaſſeries, learning was at a loſsg and the Univerſiy
(thanks be unto God more ſcared then hun) flood at *

at

nne

222 Proverbs

what would become of her. Hereupon many ſtudents ſtaid
themſelves two, three, ſome four tf ow as who would ſee,
how their degrees (before they took them) wonld be rewarded

| Cheſhire,
1 chief of —

It ſeems the Ceſtrians have formerly been renowned for
their valour. v. Fuller,

Better wed over the Mixon then over the Moor,

That is hard by or at home, the Aixon being that heap
228 which lies in the . of good nds, then
« far off or from Landow, The road from Cheſter leading to Londes
over ſome part of the Moor-lands in Srafford/bire. The

meaning is, the gentry 2 find it more profitable to
march within their own County, then to bring a bride our
of other ſhires. 1. Becauſe better acquainted with her birth
and breeding. 2, Becauſe though her portion may chance
to beleſs, the expence will be leſs to maintain her, Such
intermarriages in this County Have been obſerved both a

er of worſhipful families, and the preſerver of ami;

cen them, |

Cornwall.

T Tre, Pol, and Pen,
Toa ſhall know the Corniſh men.

Theſe three words are the Dictionary of ſuch ſirname:
as are originally Corniſhy and though Nouns in ſenſe, Iawy
ficly term them Prepoſi ions. 4

1.

ſaid
lee

ded

FF

**
8

out
irth
ince
uch
h 2
nity

Tre

Proverbs, 225

hence Tre=fry, The-lawmey,
1, Tre 2 Town, Tre-wanien, &c.
2. Pol & ſigniſieth < an Head & hence Fol- ee.
3. Pew a Top. hence Pentire, Pen-roſe,

Pen-heviil, &c.

*

0 ( —
To give one a Corniſh Hug.

The Corniſh are maſters of the Art of wreltling. Their hug
is a cunning cloſe with their fellow combatants , the fruit
whereof is his fair fall or foil at the leaſt, Ir is figuratively

liable to the deceitful dealing of ſuch, who ſecretly de-

n their overthrow whom they openly embrace.

Hengſten down well rongbt,
Is worth London tows dear ybought.

In reſpe& of the great quantity of tin to be found there
under ground, I hough the gainful plenty of metal this
place formerly afforded, is now fallen to a ſcant- laving- ſcar-
city, As for the Diamonds which Doctour Fuller fancieth
may be found there, I believe they would be little worth.

He is to be ſummoned before the Major of Halgaver.

This is a joculary and imaginary court , whetewirh men
make merriment to themſelyes, preſenting fuch —— who
go flovenly in their attite + where judgement in cerms
15 given againſt them, and executed more to the ſcors then

burr of the perſons.

Whey Dudman and Ram-head meet. lt |

Theſe are two forelands, well known to ſailers, nigh twenty
miles aſunder, and the -Proverb paſſeth for the Per ipbraſit of

an impoſſibility.

He doth ſail inte Cornwall wir l ont a bark,

This is an Halian Proyerd, where it paſſeth for a deſeri-
| prion

224 Proverbs, |
ion (or deriſion rather) of ſuch a man as is ed by
is wives diſloyalty. The wit of it conſiſts in che allaken to

the word horn,

Cumberland.

| Skiddaw hath a c ap,
Scruffell wors full well of that.

Theſe are two neighbour hills, the one in this County,
the other in Anandale in Scotland if the former be cap't
with clouds and foggy miſts , it will nor be long e're rain
falls on the other, It is ſpoken of ſuch who muſt expect to
ſympathize ia their ſufferings by reaſon of the vicinity of
thei habirarions. { |

Skiddaw, Lauvellin aud Caſticand.
Are the bigheſt bills in all England.

I know not how to reconcile this chythme with another
mention'd by the ſame Authour Camden, Britan. in Las-
caſbire, h

, Ingleborough, Pendle and Penigent,
Are the Higheſt hills between Scotland and
Trent.
Unleſs it be, that the later ternary are higheſt in Dr.
ſhire mens account 3 the former in Cumberland mens ac»
count : every County being given ro magnific (not to ſay

altific) theit own things.
4

„

Devonſhire,

To Devonſhire er Denſhire land.

That is, to pare off the ſurface or top turf thereof and to
lay it upon heaps and burn it; which aſhes are a maryelous
improvement to battle barren land, by reaſon of the fixr falt
which they contain. This courſe they take wich gheir barren
ſpungy heathy land in many Counties of Fuglaud, and call
i: D-nſbiring. Land fo uſed will, bear two or thete gavd crops
of corn, and then muſt be rhrown down again,” |

A Plymouth cloak,

That is, 2 cawe or ſtaff 3 ' whereof this the occaſion. Many
» man of good extract ion coming home from far voyages,
may chance to land here, and being out of ſorts, is unable
for the preſent time and place to recruit himſelf with clothes,
Here, (if not friendly provided) they make the next wood
their Drapers ſhop, where a ſtaff cur our, ſerves them for a
covering, For we uſe when we walk in cue to catry a ſtaff
in 21 but none when in a cloak.

He may remove Mort - ſtone.

There is a bay in this County called Aorrs-bay, but the
harbour in the entrance thereof is Rope with a huge rock,
called More-/towe, and the people merrily ſay, gone can te-
moye it but ſuch as are matters of their wives.

Firſt hang and draw,
T hen ſear the cauſe by Lidford law.
Lidford is a little and poor (but ancient) Corporation in
this County with very large Porn where a Court of
Stanneries was formerly kept, This li

lous Proyerb would
luggels

226 Proverbs,

ſuggeſt unto us, as if the Townſ-men thereof (generally
mean perſons) were unable to manage their own liberties
with neceſſaty diſcretion, adminiſtring prepoſterous and pre»
properous juſtice.

Dorſetſhire.
A much a kin as Lenſon-hill to Filſen
pen.

That is, nokin at al. It is ſpoken of ſuch who have vi-
cinity of habitation or neighbourhood, without the leaſt de-
gree of conſanguinity, or affinity berwixt them. For theſe
are two high hills, the firſt wholly, the other partly in the
Pariſh of Broad Windſor. Yet the ſea-men make the neareſt
relation between them, calling the one the cow , the other
the calf, in which forms it ſeems they appear firſt to their
fancics, being eminent ſea- marks.

Stab d with a Byrdport dagger.

Thar is hang d. The beſt if not the moſt bemp (for the
quantity of ground) growing about Byrdport , a marker-rown
in this County. And hence it is that there is an ancient ſta-
ture (though now diſuſed and —— that the cable ropes
for the Navy- royal were tobe made thereabours.

Dorſetſhire dorſers.

Dor ſers are peds or paniert carried on the backs of horſes, on
which Higlers uſe to ride and carry their commodit les It
ſeems this homely but moſt uſeful inſtrument was either firſt
found out, or is moſt generally uſed in this County where
fi/h-jobbers bring up their fiſh in ſuch contrivances, above an
hundred miles from Lime to London.

6 o

Eſſe t.

ASN

Bſſex.

E. files. \

See the caralogue of Sentences. )

Eſſex calves.

This County produceth calyes of the farteft , * faireſt and
feſt felh in England, and nely in all Europe, Sure
it is chat * 2 bought tos the price
an E reer year. Let rd
tha t argues the gopdy af ficſh ig this Canpy »
greys gain was gar formerly by the ſale thereof, becgulc that
io many ately Monuments were erected therein anciegtly
for Butchers 1 — in their LIN
* and elſe where, made with matble, ith

befxting (ſairb my Authour) a mare eminent
— it appears, that thoſe of that trade have in
— been richer (or ar leaſt prouder) then in
places,

The Weavers beef of Colcheſter,

That is ſprazs, caught bereabqurs, and brought hither in
r i > Nene, J poor Weayers ( —
in t M mu „ cut

, $urloyns, chines, &c. —— 2 —

7erring Cogſhall.

Tdis is no Proveth: but an ignominious E pithere faſtned
on this place by their — which 3 by 1
nc glory in, fo I believe the _
towns in this Countrey have h toy like abufive 3
I + rbyme which was in common uſe formerly of
ſome =_ not far diſtant the one from the other.

2 Braintree

Proverbs,
Braintree for the pure, and Bocking for the

poor, |
Cogſhall for the. jeering Totyn, and Kelvedon
for the whore,

Glouceſterſhire.

As ſure as God's in Glouceſterſhire;

This is a fooliſh and profane Proverb , unfit to be uſed.
However ſome ſeek to qualific it, making God eminently in
this, though not excluſively of other Counties z where ſuch
the former fruitfulneſs thereof, that it is (by William of Malmes-
bary, in his book of Biſhops) ſaid to return the ſeed with the
increaſe of an hundred fold ; others find a ſuperſtitious ſenſe
therein, ſuppoſing God by his gracious preſence more pe.
culiarly fix't in this Countrey, Wherein there were more and
yo mitred Abbeys , then in any two hires of England
beſides,

Tou are a man of Dureſley.

It is taken for one that breaks his word, and fails in per-
formance of his promiſe ; parallel to Hades Graca or Punica.
Doreſley is a market and clothing Town in this County,
the inhabitants whereof will endeayour to confute and diſ-
prove this Proyerb, to make it falſe now, whatſoever it was

atthe firſt original thereof,

It's as long in ceming as Cotſwald barl: 7.

It's „ to ſuch things as are ſlow, but ſure. The
corn in this cold County on the Wowlds ; expoſed to the

winds bleak and ſheltetleſs, is very backward at the firſt, but
afrerward overtakes the forwardeſt in the County, if not in
= —_ in the buſhel, both tor the quantity and goodneſs
thereof,

He

lon

Proverbs.
He looks as if be had. liv'd on Tewksbury
muſtard, | 1

Tewhsbury is a fair Market - town in this County, noted for
the muſtard - balls made there, and ſent into other parts, This
is ſpoken partly of, ſuch, Wh always have a fad, ſevere and
tetrick countenance, Si eca/hor hic homo 28 villitet, non
cenſeam tam triſſem eſſe poſſe, Plaut. in Trucul, Partly of
ſuch as are ſnappiſh, captious, and prone to take exceptions,

The Traceys have always the wind in their
faces.

This is faunded on a fond and falſe tradition, which
reporteth „ chat ever ſince 8 William Tracy , was mot
ive among the four Knights, which killed Thomat Becker,
it is impoſed on the Tracies for miraculous penancg,.'that he-
ther they go by land or by water, the wind is ever in their fa«
ces, If this were ſo (ſaith the Doctour) it was a fayour

'inan hot ſummer to the females of that family, and would

ſpare them the uſe of a Fan, &c.

A, fierce as a lion of Cotſwald.
i, e. A ſheep.

He, * 7 * f

Hampſhire,

Mz make a man, |
Buoth William of Wickham.

William of Wickham was a perſon well known, He was
Biſhop of Wincheſter, founded New Colledge in 0xford, and
Wiuchefter Colledge in this County, This genera bl was his
Motto , inſcribed frequently on the places of his founding.
So that it hath ſince acquired a Provetbial reputation.

Q 3 Canter-

229

IF

Yo dan.
/" 'Ciiiterbilty irh higher Rack bur Wincheſter ;
the better Manyer.

W. Elih ton Biſhop of nach ſter was the Authour of this
expteſſion, rendring this te reaſon of his refufal to be re.
moved to Canterbary , though choſen theteumto. Indeed
thoug h Canterbury be raced With an higher bonowrs the te-
2 of Wach Fe pient preater, It is zppliable to ſuch, who
preferre a wedſthy privicy befote u left profitable - dignity.

The Iſie of Wight hath w Monks, Lawyers

nor Foxes.
hath mort foitth then truth in tt. Hoa Fw,

This ſpeech

Catal. 75 to houſes.) "he they had Monk,
Black ones-at * yd =
Iſland, Thi they have oy t "he

them their fees : Tn that” her tak haye got their La
know, But of all:heſe, percharice fever then ln era
of equal extent.

Hartfordſhire,

H ,mmoranice clubs and clonted ſhoon.

Some will wonder how this faire lying ſo near to Lowdown,
the ſtaple of Engliſh civility ſhould be guilty of ſo much

ruſticalneſs, Bur the fineſt cloth muſt haye-a liſt, and the
pure Peſants ate 'gf as courſe 2 thread inthi in any o-
ther place, Let t fome may ſmile ut clomiſhe
1 1 4 ** , pes for he —
high- tenant the 8
boors of the Landlord,
Hartfordſhire dhe

- Plenty of hedgehogs are found in this high woodland
Countrey,

|

*

1's OO Bu

Proverbs, 221

Countrey r reported to ſuck the kine, thaugh the Dairy · maide
conne them ſmall thanks for ſparing their pains in milking
them. Whether this Proverb may have any further teflection on
the —— of this County, as therein taxed for covetouſ-
neſs and conſtant nudl ing on the earth, I think not worth the en-
quiry ; theſe nicknames being impoſed on ſevetal Counties
groundleſly, as to any moral fignificancy,

Ware and Wades-mill are worth all London.

This I aſſure you is a maſter-piece of the vulgar wits in
this County, wherewith they endeavour to amuſe travellers,
a3 if Ware a through- fare market, and Wades»mill part of a vil-
lage lying two miles North thereof were ſo prodigiouſly
rich, as to countervail the wealth of Londom. The fallacy
lieth in the homonymy of Ware, here not taken for that
bun ſo named, but appellatively for all vewdible commodi»
ties, It is racher a riddle then a Proverb. a 1

Hartfordſhire kindneſs.

It is, when one drinks back again to the party, who im-
mediately before drank to him: and although it may fig-
nifie as much, as, Manas manum fricat, & par off de me-
rente bene mereri, yet it is commonly uſed onely by way of
deriſton of thoſe, who through fo fulneſs or miſts ke, drink
to them again whom they pledged immediately.

Herefordſhire, |, 4

Leſſed is the eye,
T hat is between Severn and W ye.

Not — becauſe of the pleaſant proſpeR 3 but it ſeems

this is a ical promiſe of ſafety, to ſuch as live ſecured

within thoſe great rivers , as it prividedged from Martial
impreſſions.

Q 4 Lemfter

"I

73 \ Proverbs,
Lemſter bread and Weabley alc.

Both theſe the beſt in their kinds , underſtand ir of this
County, Otherwiſe there is Wheat in Evgiand that will
vie with that of Temper for pureneſs: for example that of
(Norden Midd'eſex.Camden, Brit) Heflon near Harrow on the
hill in Middleſex, of which for a long time the manchet for
the Kings of Eugland was made: and for Ale Derby town, and
Noerthdowws in the Iſle of Thanet, Hi in Tork ſhire and
in Cheſbire will ſcarce give place to Webley,

Huntingrtonſhire.

Ta is the way to Beggers-buſh,

It is ſpoken of ſuch, who uſe diſſolute and improvident
courſes, which tend ro poverty. Beggers-buſh being a tree
notoriouſly known, on the left hand of Lowdow road from Hun-
tington to Caxton.

Ramſey the rich.
This was the Cræ ſat of all our Exgliſß Abbeys, for ha-

ving but ſixty Monks to maintain therein, the revenues there
of according to the ſtandard of thoſe times amounted unto
ſeven thouſand pounds p:r annwn; which in proportion was
an hundred pounds for every Monk, and a thouland pounds
for their Abbot 3 vet at the diſſolut ion of Monaſteries, the
income of this Abbey was reckoned at but one thouſand
nine hundred eighty three pounds a year; whereby it r ap-
pears how much the Reyenues were under-rated in thoſe
valuations.

_ a, 4a aa

ts UW DS Lc wew.

WV w_—_— — m—_

_—@— a _ KO+_ - e« ua cssS = TZ,Qz£TZ _ [cm £x

1s
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of
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Proverbs, 233

Kent,

| A K night of Cales, aGentlewan of Wales,

and a Laird of the North-countree,
Teoman of Kent with bis yearly rent, will
buy them out all three,

Cales Knights were made in that voyage by Robert Earl
of Eſſex, to the number of ſixty 3 whereof (though many
of great birth) ſome were of low fortunes 3 and therefore

cen Elizabeth was half offended with the Earl, for ma-
king Knighthood ſo common.

Of the numerouſneſs of Welch Gentlemen nothing need be
ſaid the Welch generally pretending to Gentility, Northerss
Lairds are ſuch, who in Scotland hold lands in chief of the
King, whereof ſome have no great Revenue, So that a Kew-
nh Yeoman - (by the help of an Hyperbole) may counter»
yail, &c.

1 comes contraſted for Gemen-mein from Gemein fignify-
ing common in old Dutch, ſo that a Troman is 2 Commoner,
ane undignified with any title of Gentiliry : a condition of
people almoſt peculiar to England , and which is in effe&
the baſis of all the Nation.

Kentiſh long-t ai-s.

Thoſe are miſtaken who found this Proverb on a mi-
racle of Auſt ia the Monk; who preaching in an Engliſh
village, and being himſelf and his aſſociates beat and abu-
ſed by the Pagans there, who opprobriouſly tied Fiſb=tails to
their back- des: in revenge thereof ſuch appendants grew
to the hind- parts of all that generation, For the ſcene of
this' lying wonder was not laid in any part of Neu, but
— many miles off, nigh Cera in Dorſet/bire, 1 con-
ceive it firſt of ourlandiſh extraction, and caſt by forre ign-
ers as a note of diſgrace on all Eng/i/b men, though it chancerh

154 Proverbs,

to ſtick onely on the Kemtiſh at this day, What the origina|
or occaſion of ir at firſt was is hard to ſayz whether from wear.
ing a pouch or bag to carry their baggage in behind their
backs; whilſt probably the proud Aonfrewrs had their Lace
quies for that purpoſez or whether from the mention'd ſto.
ry of Arſtiv, I am ſure there are ſome at this day in
forreign parts, who can hardly be perſwaded but that Eu.
gliſh men have tails,

Why this nickname (cut off from the reſt of England)
continues ſtill entail'd on Nen, the reaſon may be (as the
Doctout conjectures) becauſe that County lies neareſt to
Frantr, and the French are beheld as the firſt founders of this

zſperfion

Dover-court all ſpeakers and no hearere.

The Doftowr underſtands this Proverb of ſome tumultu-
ous Court kept at Dorer, the confluence of many bluſtering
ſea-men, whore not eaſily ordered into any awful attention,
It is «ppliable ro ſuch irregular conferences , where the

peoplo ate all tongue and no ears.

jack of Dover.
I find the fitſt mention of this Proverb in our Engliſh Em
win, Chaucer in his Proeme to the Cook,

And many ajack of Dover he had ſold,
Which had been two times hot, and two time:
cold.

This he makes parallol to Crambe bis cola; and appliable to
ſuch as grote rhe eres of their Audirours wich ung rateſul
tamologſes, of what is worthleſs in it felf, tolerable as one
uttered in the notion of novelty, bat abominable if repeated. '

Some part of Xrur bath health and u wweakh, vin | Baſt

Kent Some wealth and no beultb viz. The weald of
Som both health and wealth viz che middle of the

trey and parts neur London, |
Lancaſhire

Proverbs,

Lancaſhire,

t Em 138 fair women.

Whether the wamen of this County be indeed fairer then
and) Y their neighbours I know not; but that the inhabitants of ſome
s the countreys may be and are generally fairer then thoſe of others,
7 OF is moſt certain. The reaſon whereof is to be arrribared part-
this . air, partly to the condition of
the ſoil, partly to their manner of food. The hotter the
climate, generally the blacker the inhabitants, and the colder
—— the colder I ay to a — r — for in exvteme
nultu - cold countteys rhe inhabitants are of dusky complexions, But
tering in the ſame climate that in fome the inhabitants ſhould
nrion, © be fairer then in others, proceeds from rhe diverſity of the
e the © fruation (either high or low, maritime or far from ſea) or of
the ſoil and manner of living, which we ſee have ſo much ig-
fluence upon beaſts, as ro alter them in bigneſs, ſhape and

colour, and why it may not have the like on men, 1 ſee not.

It is written uh 4 wall in Rome,
Ribcheſter was as rich as any town in Chriſten-
dome.

oon, bur whether decayed by age, or by accident
1 6 ivcalled Kite Parts — the-ri-
..

As old as Pendle hill.
If

236 Proverbs,

If Riving pike ds wear a hood,
Be ſure that day will nere be good.

— — 2 —⅛ - gp. —

A miſt on the top of that bil) is a ſiʒꝭu of foul weather. b.
| P.
th
Leiceſterſhire.

| Be- Leiceſterſhire, .
So called from the great plenty of that grain growing ze
therein. Yea thoſe of the neighbouting countreys ule to ſij ¶ K

merrily , Shake a Leiceſterſhire man ty the collar, aud you

| f ſhall hear th: beans rattle in hit belly. But thoſe Yeomen {mile

| at what is ſaid to rattle in their bellies , whilſt they knev

) good ſilvet ringeth in their pockets.
N If Bever hath a cap, —
Ten churls of the vale lock to that.

| That is when the clouds hang over the rowers of Bere:
i caſtle, it is a prognoſtick of much rain and moiſture, to the

f much endamaging that fruitful vale, lying in the three Coun-
1 ties of Leiceſter ,- Lincoln and Notingham, -
| St
till
. bal
, Lincolnſhire, the
; ] | all
| the
[4 | | r where hogs ſhite ſope and com To
5 ſbite fire. a am

The inhabitants of the poorer ſort _— their clothei *
__ hogs dung, and burning dried cow-dung for want of be
ter fuel.

Lincolnſhire

: Proverbs, 237
Lincolnſhire bagpipes.

Whether becauſe the people here do more delight in the
bagpipes then others, or whether they are more cunning in
playing upon them, indeed the farmer of theſe will interre
the latter. |

As lind 4; Tom of Lincoln.

This Tom of Lincoln is an extraordinary great bell -
ing in one of the towers of Lincoln Minſter ; how it got t
name I know not, unleſs it were impoſed on it, when bapti-
ring ed by the Papiſts. Howbeit this preſent Tam was caſt in
King James his time, Anu 1610, *

le All the tarts that come to Ctowland art BU
_ with ſilver. | |

Crowland is ſituate in ſo mooriſh rotten ground in the
Fens, that ſcarce a horſe, much leſs a cart can come to it.
Since the draining, in ſummer time carts may go thither.

ever As mad a5 the baiting bull of Stamford.

dun Take the original hereof, (K. Buecker in his Survey of
Stamford p. 40.) William Earl Warren Lord of this Town in
the time of King Fobw, ſtanding; upon the Caſtle walls of
Stamford, ſaw two bulls fighting. for; a cow in the meadow,
till all che butchers dogs great and {mall purſued one of the
balls (being madded with noiſe and multicude) clean through
the rown, This fight, ſo pleaſed che [ſaid Earl, that be gave
all thoſe meadows (called the cafe meadows) where firit
the Bull duell began, for a common to the butchers of the
Town (after the tuſt- graſs was eaten) on condition they find
a mad Bull, the day fix weeks 11 Chriſtmas day, for the
continuance of that ſporr evety Year, |

He was born at little Wittham.
Linle Wintham is a village in this County. It is 1 to
uc

138 Proverks,

ſuch as are not overſtock't with acuteneſs, being a nomic
alluſionz of the like whereto we haye many current among

vulgar.
Grantham grucl, nine grits ,
Water.

It is appliable to thoſe who in their ſpeeches or action,
multiply What is ſuperfluous, ot at beſt leſs neceſſary, eitbe
wholly omirring or leſs regarding the effentials thereof,

They bold togetber as the men of Marham,

Hoe they loſt their common.
Some underſtand it jronically, that is, they are divided

and 4 gallon |

with ſeveral factions, Noon which als gap any cauſe. Others uſei
onely as an expreſſion when men ſtrive a
plot together to no purpoſe.
Middleſex.
Miu clawns.

doing ry and Nobility are r 1
2 to _ r le gi Low
ww iy. by 57 xians (fr

by breed
— 2 becauſe abounding — 5 It ba
— u anstellt . dt 2 — 2

a as alſo w ve leſs
— do Gaay, as in places of great trade.

He that is at a low ebb at Newgate, Ma) TG
be aflote at Tiburn.

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2

Proverbs, 239

M. Bedwell deſcript of Tottenbaw, Chap, 3.

When Tottenham wood is all on fire,
Then Tottenham ſtreet is nonght but mire,

That is, when Team wood ſtanding on an 28 hill
at the end of the Pariſh , hah » foggy mil;
orer it in manner of a ſmoke, then generally foul —

ſollowet h.

Idem ibid.

Tottenham i 8 French.

It ſeems about the beginning of the reign of K ing Hewry
. framed in England, ro the
fb artiſans , N * the i —
Mayday, A. D. 1517, Nor was
Inno bur the Coun Villages for four miles about filled
with Freweh faſhions infections. The Proverb is a —
to ſuch, who contemning the cuſtomes of their o
rey, make themſelyes more ridiculous by aſſecting * —
mours and habits.

London,

A London fury, hang balf and ſave half.

Tome aſhgwpakis af an Ffſex, BOS Middleſex Juty:

cnet all ce chanjry believes js.<qually true, that is equally un-

_ all chret. 2 fp would fain pong a me .
1. im den Jurics,

i diſpatch then

wh more at
wltize, ors quickeidguney, (khough 2 K

240 Proverbs,
true men) acquir half and condemn half. Thus they divide
themſelves in <quilibrio between juſtice and mercy , though
it were meet f ſhould have the more 2
tI2Ccs &c

The falſeneſs of chis ſuggeſtion will appear to ſuch , who
by peruſing hiſtory, do diſcover the Toydon Jurors moſt con-
ſcientious in proceeding ſecundum allegata & probata, alway Y ©
inclining to the merciful fide in ſaving life, when they cin
find any cauſe or colour for the ſame,

*
a el
London lich-penny,
The countrey man coming up hither, by his own experi
ence will eaſily expound the meaning thereof,
A London Coca. la

This nickname. is more then four hundred years old, hi
For when Hwgh Bigor added artificial fortifications to his ©

naturally ſtrong Caſtle of Bunge in Suffolk, he gave ou
this chythme, therein, vaunting it for impregnable,
| Were I in ey caſtle of Bungey, -
Upon the river of Wareney, (i
I would ne care for the King of Cockney. ca]
the

Meaning thereby King Hewry the ſecond , then quietly
polleſled of London, whilſt ſome other places did reſiſt him:
though afterwards he ſo humbled this Hwgh, t he wa
fein with large ſums of money, and pledges for, —
to redeem this his Caſtle from being raſed to the g;

I meet with a double fence of this word Cockney. 1. Om
coaks'd and cocqnei'd , made a wanton or Neſthe- cock, de-
licately bred and brought up, ſo as when grown up to be
ble to endure no. hardſhip, 2. One utterly”
counr-ey affairs, of husbandry and houſewivery s there
Riſed. | The original thereof 3 and cho tale —
2 5

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fon , who knew not the language of a Cock , bur called it
neig hing, is commonly known,

Billings-gate Iangrage.

Rilllage was formerly a gate and (as ſome would make
us believe) ſo called from Belinus the brother of Brenwiss :
it is now rather portws a haven , then porta, Billings..gate
language is ſuch as the fiſhwives and other rude people
which flock thither uſe frequently one to another, when
they fall our.

Kirbies caſtle and Megꝑſes glory,
Spinola 's pleaſure and Fiſhers fully,

Theſe were four houſes about the City, built by citizens,
large and ſumptuous above their eſtates, He that would
know any thing more of the builders of theſe houſes, let
him — 4 the Authour.

He was born within the ſound of Bow“ bell.

This is the Periphraſu of a Londoner at large, This
is called Few. bell becauſe hanging in the ſteeple of Bow
Church, and Bow Church, becauſe built on bows or arches
(faich my Aurhour ) But 1 have been told that it was
called from the croſs ſtone arches , or bows on the top of
the ſteeple.

St peters in the poor, |
Where no Tavern, Alehouſe, or Sen at the

door.

Under cottection I conceive it called in the Poor, be-
cauſe the Ang inian friers profeſſing willful poverty for
ſome hundreds of years, poſſeſſed more then a moiety
thereof, Otherwiſe = was one of the richeſt Pariſhes
in London, and therefore might ſay, Aale vocars
quam jeſſe, How ancient he uſe of figns jn this ciry on

R | private

242 Proverbs,
private houſes is to me unknowns ſure I am it was ge-
nerally uſed in the reign of King Edward the fourth.

Good manners to except my Lord Major of
London.

This is a cottective for ſuch, whoſe expteſſions are of the
largeſt fizez and too general in their extent.

I have dined as well as my Lord Major of
London.

Thar is, though not ſo dubiouſly or daintily on variety
of coltly diſhes. yet as comfortably, 5 contentedly , accor-
ding to the Rule, Sati: eff quod fu cit, Enough is as
as a feaſt, and bettet then a ſurfer, —

As old as Pauls, or as Pauls ſteeple.

Different are the dates of the age thereof, becauſe it had
two births or beginnings, one when it was originally co-
founded by King Ethelbers , with the body of S Church,
Anno 610, another when burnt with lightning, and afterwards
rebuilt by the Biſhops of London, 1087,

He is oxely fit for Ruffians-hall,

Weſt Smithfield (now the horſe-market) was former
called (continuer of Stows annals.) Ruf ant hall, where
fians met caſually, and otherwiſe to try maſteries with ſword
and buckler,

A loyal heart may be landed under Traitors
bridge.

This is a bridge under which is an entrance into the
Tower, oyer againſt Pink-gate, formerly fatal ro thoſe who
landed there 3 there being a mutteting that ſuch never came
forth alive, as dying, to ſay no worſe therein, without

any

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any legal trial, The Proverb importeth that paſſive inno-
cence over rd wich adverſaries, may be accuſed with.
out cauſe, and diſpoſed at the pleaſure of other.

Tocaſt water into the Thames,

That is, to give to them who had plenty before; which
notwithſtanding is the Dole geweral of the world,

He muſt take 4 honſe in Turn-again Lane.

This in old Records is called Wind- again Lane , and li-
eth in the Pariſh of S* Sepalcbres, going down to Fleet»
dike, having no exit at one end. It is ſpoken of, and to thoſe
who take prodigal or other vicious and deſttuctive courſes,

He may whet his knife on the threſhold of the
Fleet.

The Fleet is a place notoriouſly known for a priſon, ſo
called trom Fleet-brook running by it, to which many are
committed for their contempts, more for their debts. The
Proverb is appliable to ſuch who never owed ought ; or
having run into debt have crept out of it, ſo that now,
they may eriumphare in hoſtico, deſie danger and artefls, &c,

All geeth down Gutter-lane,

Guttur-laue (the right ſpelling whereof is Gutbwrw-lany'
from him the once owner thereof) is a ſmall Lane (i
bited anciently by gold-deaters)” leading out of Cheap. fade,
Eaſt of Fo- lan. The Proverb is applied to choſe, who
ſpend all in drunkenneſs and gluttony, meer belly-gods :
Cutter being Lacine for the throat.

As lame 4 St Giles Cripple-gate.

$: Gib, was by birth an Athenian , of noble extraction,
bat quitted all for a ſolicary life, He was viſued with #

lameneſs (whether natural or caſual I know not) bur the
R 2 tradition

244 Proverbs, ;
tradition goes; that he. deſited not to be healed

for his greater mortiſication. Cripplegate was ſo called
before the Conqueſt , from cripples begging of paſſengers
therein,

This Proverb may ſeem guilty of falſe heraldry, lame.
neſs on lameneſs; and in common diſcourſe is ſpoken ta-
ther metrily then mournfully of ſuch, who for ſome fleight
hurt lag behind; and ſomerimes is applied ro thoſe who out
of lazineſs counterfeir infirmity,

Yon are all for the Hoiſtings er Huſtings, 4 #

It is ſpoken of rhoſe, who by pride or paſſion, are ela-
ted or mounted to a pitch aboye the due proportion of their
birth, quality or eſtate, It cometh from H«ſtings the prin-

cipal and higheſt Court in London (as alſo in Wiwchefter | «
Lincols, Tork, &c.) ſo called from the French word hanlſer «
to raiſe or lift up. a
Weſtminſter.

if

| I Here is no redemption from Hell,

There is a place partly under, partly by the Exchequer
chamber, commonly called Hell, (I could wiſh it —
ther name, ſeeing it is ill jeſting with edg'd tools) former

appointed a prilon for the Kings debrors, who never were

from thence, until they had paid their utmolt due.

As long ar Megg of Weſtminſter,

This is applied ro perſons very tall, eſpecially if they have
hep-pole bricks, — breadth — 8 — there
ever was ſuch a Gyant- woman cannot be proved by any
good witneſs, I paſs not for a late lying ne” &c.
wide fir, He thinks it might relate to a great gun lying 2

Proverbs, 245
the Tower called long Megy , in troubleſome times broughe

to Weflminſter, where for ſome time it continued.

Nor folk.

N Orfolk dumplings.

This referres not to the ſtature of their bodies; but to
the fare they commonly feed on and much delight in,

A Yarmouth Capes,

Thar is a red herring : more herrings being taken then
capons bred here, So the Italiaw Friers (when diſpoſed to
eat fleſh on Fridays) call a capon piſcem & corte, à fiſh out
of rhe coop,

He is arreſted by the Bayliff of Merſhland.

That is, clapt on the back by an ague, which is incident
to ſtrangers at firſt coming into this low, tenny and unwhole-

ſome Countrey.

Gimmingham, Trimmingham , Knapton ad
Trunch,

North Repps and South Repps are all of 4
bunch,

Northam-

Proverbs.

Northamptonſhire,

He Major of Northampton opens oiſter.
with his dagger.

To keep them at a ſufhcient diſtance from his noſe, For
this Town being eighty miles from the ſea, fiſh may well
be preſumed ſtale therein, Vet have I heard (ſaſth the
Doctout) that oiſters put up with care, and carried in the
cool, were weekly brought freſh and good to Althrop , the
houſe of the Lord Spencer at equal diſtance : and it is no
wonder, for I my ſelf have eaten in Warwick/bire, above
eighty miles from Londos, oiſters ſent from that city, freſh
and goodz and they muſt haye been carried ſome miles be»
fore they came there,

He that would eat 4 butter'd faggot , let hin
go to Northampton.

I have heard that King Fames ſhould ſpeak this of New
ortet; but I am fare it may better be applied to rhis
Town, the deareſt in England for fuel, where no coals can
came by water, and little wood doth grow on land.

One Proverb there is of this County, which 1 wonder
how Doctour Fuller being native thereof could miſs, unleſs

perchance he did ſtudiouſly omir, as refleRing diſgrace on 2
Market town therein,

Brackley breed, better to hang then feed.

Northum-

Proverbs,

Northumberland,

yore Barwick to Dover, three hundred miles

over,

That is from one end of the land to the other, parallel to that
Scriprure expreſſion , From Dan to Beer-ſbeba.

To take Hectors cloak,

Thar is to deceive a friend, who confideth in his faich-
fulneſs. When Thomas Percy B. of Northumberland, Anno
1569, was routed in the rebellion he had raiſed againſt
Queen Elizabeth, he hid himſelf in the houſe of one Heftor
Armſtrong of Harlaw in this County, having confidence he
would be true to him, who notwithſtanding, for money be-
ttayed him to the Regent of Scotland, It was obſer-
vable that Hector being before a rich man fell poor of a
ſudden, and ſo hated generally that he never durſt go a-
broad. Inſomuch that the Proverb to yy cloak
is continued to this day among them, in the ſence above
menti

il not loſe a Scot.

That is, any thing how inconſiderable ſoever that we can
ſave or recover. During the enmity berween the two nations,
they had little eſteem of, and leſs affeRion for 3 Scorchmas
in the Engli/h border.

A Scottiſh man aud a Newcaſtle grindſtone,
travel all the world over.

The Scots are great travellers into forreign

parts , molt
for maiwtenance, many for accompliſhment. And Newcaſtle

acc
'R4 grindſtones,

248 Proverbs,
grindſtones, being the beſt in their kind, muſt needs be

carried far and ncar,

If they come they come not.
; and,
If they come not then come.

The cattel of people living hereabout , turn d into the
common paſture, did by cuſtoine uſe to return to their home
ar night, unleſs intercepted by the Free booters and borderers,
If therefore thoſe Bordevers came, their cartel came not: if
they came not, their catrel ſurely returned,

Notinghamſhire,

A: wi ſe 4s 4 man of Gotham.

It paſſeth for the Periphraſis of a fool , and an hundred
foppeties are feigned and fathered on the Towns folk of
Gotham, a village in this County. Here two things may
be obſerved

1. Men in all ages have made themſelves merry with
ſingling cut ſome place, and fixing the ſtaple of, ſtupidity
a elidiry therein, So the Phrycians in Aa, the Abde-
rite in Thrace, and the Brotians in Greece were notorious
for dulmen and blockhcads.

2, Theſe places thus fleighted and ſcoffed at, afforded
ſome as witty and wiſe perſons as the world produced, So
Democyitns was an Abderite, Plutarcha Brian, &c. Hence
Furenal well concludes,

Sammos poſſe viros T magna exempla daturos,
Vervecum in patria craſwoque [ub atre waſci.
As for Gotham it doth breed as wiſe people as any, which
cauſleſſy 1 their ſimplicity, Sure I am, M. William
dr Gotham, maſter of Aichac l- hom ſe in Cambridge 1 3 36,

ye

STE

Proverbs. 249

and twice Chancellour ef the Univerſity, was as grave a go-
yernour as that age did afford.

The little ſmith of Notingham,
Who doth the Work that ws man can.

Who this little ſmith and great workman was, and when
he lived 1 know not, and have cauſe to ſulpect, that this
of Notivgham is a Periphraſss of Nemo, «nc, ora perſon
who never was. By way of Sarcaſme it is applied to ſuch,
who being conceited of their own skill, pretend to the at»
chieving of impoſſibilities.

Oxfordſhire.

„ were born at Hogs Norton.

This is a village properly called Hoch Nerrom, whoſe in-
habirancs (ir ſeems formerly) were ſo ruſlical in their be-
haviour that boariſh and clowniſh people are ſaid to be
born there, Bat whatever the people were , the name was
enough to occaſion ſuch a Proverb,

Te take a Burford bait.

This ir ſeems is a bait not to ſtay the ſtomack, but to
— the wit thereby, as reſolved at laſt into drun-
nneſs,

Banbury veal, cheeſe and cake.

In the Engliſh edition of Camdens Brit, it was
the correQours miſtake , printed Banbury xral , &c. wid
Amorem,

Teſtons

250 Proverbs,

Teſftons art gone to Oxford te fu, inBrazens
noſe, :

This began about the end of the reign of King Henry
the eighth, at ſuch time as he debaſed che coin, allayi
of ir with copper, (which common people confound, wi
braſs) It continued till about the middle of Queen Al.
zabeth , who by degrees called in all that adulte rate coin,
Teftone and our Engliſh teſter come from the Italian 21s
ſignifying a head, becauſe that money was ſtamped with z
head on one fide. Copfick in high Datch hath the ſame

, i. e. Nummus capitatus, money with a head upon it,

Send Verdingales to Broad-gates in Oxford,

For they were ſo — that the weaters could not en-
ter (except going fide 29 at — ordinary door. Though
they have been long diſuſed in England, yet the faſhion of then

is ſtill well enough known, They are uſed ſtill by the Spi

women, and the Italian living under the Spauiſb dominion,

and they call them by a name ſignify ing cover-infantz be.
rou

cauſe they were firſt he into uſe to hide great bellies,
Of the name Verdingal 1 haye not mer with a good, that
is, true Etymology.

Rutlandſhire,

Draitons Polyolbion,

R uw Raddleman.

That is perchance Reddleman, a Trade and that a poor one
enely in this County, whence men bring on their backs 1
ck of redſtones or oker, which they ſell to theit neigbbom
ing Countries for the marking of ſheep, |

Shrof

Proverbs,

Henry Shr opſhire .

ayi

Sl. E that fetcheth a wife from Shrewsbury,
coin, muſt carry her into Staffordſhire , er
ws elſe he ſball live in Cumberland,
"Cane The ſtaple wit of this yalgar Proverb, conſiſting folelyin
a is, fmilirude of ſound is ſcarce worth the inſertiog,

rd,

3 Somerſetſhire.

cha

pon "CH was bore at Taunton Dean, where
; bs ſhould I be bore elſe.

ellies, This is a parcel of — round about Taumtem ve

, tha pleasant and populous (containing many Pariſhes) and ſo
fruicful, to uſe their own phraſe, with the Zan and. Zoil
alone, that it needs no manuring at all. The peſan
therein are as rude as rich, and ſo highly conceited of their
own Countrey, that they conceive it a diſparagement to ve
born in any other place.

The beggers of Bath.

Many in that placez ſome natives there, others repairing
thicher from all parts of the land, the poor for alms, the
pained for caſe, |

Briſtol wilk,
Thar is Sherry-ſack, which is the entertainment of courſe,
which the courteous Briſtolievs preſent to ſtrangers, when firſt

* 895 Stafford

Proverbs,

Staffordſhire,

Camdens Britan, in this County,

N April Doves flood,
It worth a Kings good.

Dove is a river parting this and Derbyſhire, which when it
overflows its banks in April is the Xr/ns of Staffordſbive,
much battling the meadows thereof.

Idem ibidem,

Wotton under Weaver,
Where God came never.

This profane Proverb it ſeems , took irs wicked original
from the ſituation of Wortow , covered with hills from the
light of the Sun, a diſmal place, as report repreſents it.

*

Suffolk.
Ju folk milk.

This was one of the ſtaple commodities of the land
of Canaan , and certainly moſt wholeſome for. mans

becauſe of Gods own chooſing for his own people, No County
in Ewgland affords better — ſweetet of this kind, by

* to Holland in the Netherlands, where is the beſt
ry in Chriſtendom. | 2 In.
Suſſolk

e,

al
he

F FAA.

i Proverbs, 253
Suffolk fair maids.

It ſeems the God of Nature hath been bountiful in gi-
ving them beautiful complexions 3 which I at willing to
believe, ſo far forth as ir fixeth not a comparative dilpa-
ragement on the ſame ſex in other places.

Ten are in the hig li wan to Needham.

Needham is a market-town in this County according to
the wit of the vulgar, they are faid to be in the bigh-way
thither, which do hafen to poverty,

Beckles for a puritan, Bangey for the poor,
Haleſworth for a drunkard, and Bliborowgh for a whore,

Between Cowhithe and merry Caſſingland,
The Devil o Benacre, look, where it ſtands.

It ſeems this place is infamous for its bad ſitustion.

Surrey,

He vale of Holms-dale
Was never wen, ne ever Hall.

This Proverbial rhythme hath one part of Hiſtory , the
other of prophecy, As the firſt is certainly untrue, ſo the
ſecond is frivolous, and not to be heeded by ſober perſons, as
neither any other of the like nature.

—

Twittie twatle, Drin up your poſſes drink,
This Provetb had its original in Cambridge, and is ſcarce
known elſewhere. |
Suſſex,

Proverbs,

Suſſex. *

A Selſey cockle, an Arundel wwllet , a Pul-
borough cel, An Amberley traut, 4 Ric
berring, 4 Bourn wheat ear,

Weſtmorland,

: 12 Uter Pendragon do what he can, *

The river Eden will run as it ran. tha
Parallel to that Latine verſe, the
Naturam expellas furc d licet wſque recurret. me

Tradition reporteth , that Urer Pendragon had a deſign to to |
fortiße the caſtle of Pendragon in this County. In order I 3 |
whereto with much art and induſtry, he invited and tempted | tak
the river Eden to forſake his old channel, but all to no f inst

As crafty as a Kendale fox. this

1

Wiltſhire, —

13 5

T is done ſecundum uſum Sarum, vit

This Proverb coming our of che Church hath ſince en- def

larged it ſelf into a civil uſe, Gignifying things done with | *

exi&neſs, according to rule and precedent. ops + Gay!

Sarum about the year 1090, made that or — dale
1 ; 8

ul-

e Ls

Proverbs, 155

which was generally received all over the land, ſo that
Churches thence forward eaſily underſtood one another, ſpeak-
ing the ſame words in their Licurgy.

Salisbury plain is ſeldom Without a thief or
twain.

Yorkſhire,
deli-

Rom Hell, Hull azd Halifax
ver #s,

This is a part of the beggers and vagrants Letany. OP
theſe three frighrful things unto them, it is to be feared,
that they leaſt fear the firſt, conceiting ir the furtheſt f om
them, Hull is terrible to them as a Town of good govern-
ment, where beggers meet with punitive charity, and it is
to be feared are oftner corrected then amended, Halifax
is formidable to them for the Law thereof, whereby thieves
ken inawrow in the very act of ſtealing cloth, are
inſtantly beheaded with an engine, without any further le-
al proceedings. Doubtleſs the coincidence of the initial
ters of theſe three words, helpꝰt much the ſetting on foor
this Proverb,

A Scarborough warning.

That is none at all but a ſudden ſurpriſe, when a mi-
chief is felt before ir is ſuſpected. I his Proverb is bur of
an hundred and four years ſtanding, taking its original from
Thomas Stafford, who in the reign of Queen Mary, Anne 1557
with a ſmall company ſeized on Scarborough caitle (utterly
deſtitute of provifion for reſiſtance) before the Townſmen
had the leaſt notice of his approsch. However within fix
days by the induſtry of the Barl of Weſtmorland he was
taken, broughe to Lenden and beheaded, &c, wide, p

4

Proverls,

As true ſteel as Rippon rowels.
It is ſaid of truſty perſons, men of metal, faithful in their

employments. Xippon in this County is a , own famous for

the beſt pars of England, whoſe rowels may be enforced

— ſtrike through a ſhilling, and will break ſooner then
1.

A Yorkſhire way-bir,

That is an overplus nor accounted in the reckoning,
which ſometimes proves as much as all the reſt. Ask
countrey-man, How many miles it is to ſuch a Town, and
be will return — ſo many miles and a way-bt,
Which wway-bit is enough to make the weary Traveller ſur.
fer of the length thereof. But it is not 4vay-bit though ge-
nerally ſo pronounced, but wee- bit, a pure Turi ſbiri ſu, which
is 8 ſmall bit in the Northern language.

Merry Wakefield. *

What peculiar cauſe of mirth this Town hath aboye o- tiu
thers, I do not know and dare not too curiouſly enquire, Hu
Sure it is ſeated in a fruitful ſoil and cheap countrey : and
where good chear and company are the premiſſes, mirth (in
common conſequence) will be the conclufion,

FP”: woe v

Pendle. Ingleborough 4 Penigent. hy
Are the three higheſt hills between Scotland ani um
Trent. 0
And which is more common in the mouths of the vulgat
Pendle, Periigent and Ingleborough,
Are the tbree higheſt hills all England thoyow, Ox
Theſe three hills are in fight of each other, Pewdle cn f
the edge of Lancaſbire, Peuigent and ingloverengy hy 4
tie in T.rkſbire, and not far from Weſtmorlaud, -

ure indeed the bigheft hls in England not compredending

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Wales, But in Wale I think ' Snowdon, Cadiridris and Plim-
{I: nmon axe higher. .

beit
— If Brayton bargh, and Hambleton bog h, and
— Burton bream,

Were all in thy belly *t Would never be team.

It is ſpoken of a covetous and unſatiable perſon , whom
nothing will content. Brayton and Hambleton and Burton
ing, re places between Caweod and * — in this County.
enen Bargh is a ſmall bill in a plain Countrey covered
and | with wood, Bargh in the Northern dialect is ly a
Wy 3 up a fleep hill, though here it be taken tor the
ſur. hill it ſe 2

hich When Dighton i p down,
Hull ſhall become a great Town,
This is rather a prophecy then a Proyerb. Dightos is 2
ſmall Town not a mile ditlant from Hull, and was in the

e off tine of the late wars for the moſt part pull'd down. Let
aire. Hull make the belt they can of it.

| (in Cleveland in the clay,
Bring in two ſoles and carry one away.
Cleveland is that part of Torkſhire , which borders upon
the Biſhoprick of Durham , where the ways in winter
time are very foul and deep,

EVI day of the week a ſhower of rain, and on
Sunday twain.

Oxford knives and Lowdon wives,

ls FW ho goes to Weſtminſter tor a wife, to Pavla for

r S man, and to Smirhfield for a horſe, may meet
ue With a whore, a knave, and a jade.

8 Grays

— —— — —

258 Proverbs,

Grays Inn for walks, Lincolus Inn for a wall,
The inner Temple for a garden, and the mid-
dle for a Hall,

Dxnmow bacon and Doncaſter daggers, Monmouth
caps and Lemſter wooll,
Derby ale, and London beer.

Like Banbary Tinkers, who in mending one hole
make three.

You may ſip up the Severn and ſwallow Afavers
as ſoon,

Little England beyond Wales, i. e. Pembrokeſhire,

Little London beyond Wales, i. e Bearmaris in the
Ile of Angleſey : both ſo called becauſe the in-
habitants ſpeak good Engliſh: indeed in Pen
hrobeſbire many. of the people can ſpeak no
Welſh,

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SCOTTISH
PROVERBS.

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LI things hath a beginning (God ex-
cepted )
Agood beginning makes a good ending.
A flothful man is a beggers brother,
A vaunter and a liar is both one thing,
— | Allis not loſtthat is in peril,
Allis not in hand that helps.
An empty purſe: makes a baſhful merchant,
As long runs the fox as he feet hath,
A haſty man never wanted wo,
1 A nimble man wanted never a weapon.
A fools bolt is ſoon ſhot.
A given horſe ſhould not be lookt in the teeth.
A good asker ſhould have a good nayſay.
A dear ſhip ſtands long in the haven.
An active mother makes a lazy daughter,
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260 Scottiſh * Proverbs,

A careleſs huſſie makes mony thieves,

A liar ſhould bave a good memory,

A black ſhooe makes a blithe heart.

A hungry man ſees far.

A filly bairn is eaſy to lear.

A half-penny cat may look to the King,

A greedy man God hates.

A proud heart in a poor breaſt, hes meikle dollour
co ſuffer,

A ſcald mans head is ſoon broken,

A skabbit ſheep flees all the flock.

A burnt bairne, fire dreads,

Auld men are twice bairnes,

A tratler is worſe then a thief.

A borrowed len ſhould come laughing hame.

A blithe heart makes a freſh *

A year a nuriſn, ſeven years a ſlur,

An unhappy mans cairt is eith to tumble.

An old hound bites ſair.

A fair bride is ſoon dreſſed, and a ſhort horſe ſoon
wiſpt.

As good hold as draw.

A man that is warned, is half armed.

An ill win penny will caſt down a pound.

All the corn in the countrey, is not ſhorn by
pratlers.

Ane begger is wae that another be the gate gae.

A travelled man hath leave to lie, |

Ane ill word meets another, and it were at the
bridg of London.

A hungry louſe bites fair,

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Scottiſh Proverbs,

A gentle horſe would not be over ſair ſpurred,

A friends dinner is ſoon dight.

An ill hook wald have a good claver.

A good fellow tint never, but atan ill fellows hand.

At open doors, dogs comes in.

A word before, is worth two behind.

A ſtill ſow eats all the draff,

A dumb man holds all,

All fails that fools thinks,

A wooll ſeller kens a wooll buyer,

All fellows, Jock and the Laird,

As the ſow fills, the draff ſoures.

A full heart lied never.

As good merchant tynes as wins.

All the ſpeid is in the ſpurs,

A fair greits the bairne that is beaten afternoon, as
he that is beaten before noon,

An ill life, an ill end.

Anes wood, never wiſe.

Anes payit never cravit.

A good bragger, was never a good rider.

All the keys in the countrey hangs not at ane belt.

Adumb man wan never land.

As ſoon comes the lambs skin to the market, as the
old ſheeps,

As many heads, as many wits,

Ablind man ſhould not judge of colours,

As the old cock craws, the young cock leares,

A skabbed horſe is good enough for a skald ſquire,

Adark mirrour is a mans mind,

As meikle up with, as meikle down with,
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262 Scottiſh Proverbs,

An ill ſhearer gat never a good hook,
A tarrowing bairn was never far,
A good cow may have an ill calf.
A cock is bold in his own dunghil,
A new biſlome ſoupes clean,
As fair fights wranes as cranes.
A barren ſow was never good to pigs.
As the carle riches he wretches,
A fool when he hes ſpoken hes all done.
An old ſeck craves meikle clouting,
An old ſeck is ay ſcattering,
A fair fire makes a room flet.
An old knave is na bairne,
A good yeaman makes a good woman.
A man hath no more good then he hath good of.
A fool may give a wiſe man a counſel,
A man may enquire the gate to Kome.
As long lives the merry man as the wretch for all
the craft he can,
All wald have all, all wald forgive,
Ane may lead a horſe to the water, but four and
twenty cannot gar him drink,
A baſhful cat makes a proud mouſe.
An ill willy kow ſhould have ſhort horns,
A — piece ſteil is worth a penny.
A ſhored tree ſtands lang.
A gloved cat was never a good hunter,
A walking foot is ay getting.
All is not gold that glitters.
A ſwallow makes not ſummer or ſpring- time.
A man may ſpit on his hand and do full ill.
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An ill ſervant will never be a good maiſter,

An hyred horſe tyred never,

All che winning is in the firſt buying.

Anuch [ enough ] is a feaſt (ot bread and cheiſe.)

A horſe may ſnapper on four feer,

All thing wytes that well not faires.

All things thrives but thrice,

Abſence is a ſhroe,

Auld fin new ſhame.

A man cannot thrive except his wife let him,

A bairne mon creep or he gang.

As long as ye ſerve the fox, ye man bear up his tail,

All overs are ill.

A man may wooe where he will, buthe will wed
where his hap is. evin,

A mean pot | where ſeveral ſhare init] plaid never

Among twenty four fools not ane wiſe man,

Ane mans meat, is another mans poiſon,

A fool will not give his bable for the rower of Lun,

A foul foot makes a full womb.

A man isa lion in his own cauſe,

A hearty hand to give a hungry meal,

A cumberſome cur in company, is hated for his
miſcarriage.

A poor man is ſain of little.

An anſwer in a word,

A beltleſs bairn cannot lie.

A Zule feaſt may be quat at Paſche,

A nos dog never barket without a bone.

A full ſeck will take a clout on the fide.

An ill hound comes halting home.

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263

264 Scottiſh Proverbs,

All things help (quod the Wran) when ſhepiſhed

in the ſea,

All brags, all beares.

A houndleſs man comes to the beſt hunting.

All things hes an end, and a pudding hes twa,

All is well that ends well.

As good hads the ſtirrep, as he that loups on,

A begun work is halfended.

A Scottiſh man is wiſe behind the hand.

A new tout in an old horn.

As broken a ſhip hes come to land.

As the fool thinks, ay the bell clinks.

A man may ſee his friend need, but he willnot ſee
him bleed, |

A friend is not known but in need.

A friend in court, is better nor a penny in the
purſe.

All things is good untryed,

A good gooſe indeed , but ſhe hes an ill gan-

er.

All are not maidens that wears bair hair.

A mache and a horſe-ſhoe are both alike.

Airlie crooks the tree, that good cammok ſhould
be.

An ounce of mothers wit is worth a pound of
Clergy.

An inch of a nage is worth the ſpan of an aver,

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Scottiſh proverbs. 265

B,

Etter ſit idle then work for nought,
Better learn by your neighbours loſs nor by

—4 own,
Better half egg nor toome doupe.
Better apple given nor caten,

Better a dog fan nor bark on you.
Bodin | offered ] geir ſtinks.

'Bourd [ jeſt] neither with me, nor with my honour,

Buy when i bid you,

Better late thrive then never.

Better hand louſe nor bound to an ill baikine, ”

Better lang little nor ſoon right nought.

Better give nor take,

Better bide the cookes nor the mediciners.

Better ſaucht with little auchr, nor care with ma-
ny kow.

Bring a kow to the hall, and ſhe will to the cow-
houſe again.

Bear wealth, poverty will bear it ſelf,

Better goodſeal nor good eall,

Better wooe over midding nor over moſs.

Blaw the wind never ſo faſt it will calme at the laſt.

Bind faſt, find faſt,

Better auld debts nor auld ſaires.

Better a fowl in hand nor two flying.

Better ſpaire at the brim nor at the bottom.

Bind the ſeck before it be full.

Better

266 Scottiſh Proverbs,

Better be well loved nor ill won geir.

Better finger off nor ay aking.

Better rew ſit, nor rew flit.

Bourd not with bawty.

Better ſay, Here it is, nor here it was.

Better plays a full womb, nor a new coat.

Better be happy nor wile, |

Better happy co court, nor good ſervice.

Better a wit bought, nor twa for nought,

Better bow nor break.

Better two ſeils, nor ane ſorrow,

Berter bairnes weep nor bearded men,

Betwixt twa ſtools, the arſe falls down.

Better na ring nor the ring of a ruſh,

Better hold out nor put out.

Better ſit ſtill, nor riſe and get a fall.

Better leave nor want.

Better unborn nor untaught.

Better be envied nor pitied.

Better a little fire that warms , nor a meikle that
burns. | |

Be the ſame thing that thou wald be cald.

Black will be no other hew.

Beauty but bounty avails nought.

Beware of had I wiſt.

Better be alone, nor in ill company.

Better a thigging mother, nor a ryding father,

Before I wein and now I wat,

Bonie ſilver is ſoon ſpendit.

Betrer never begun nor never endir,

Biting and ſcratching is Scotsfolks woing,

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Scottiſh Proverbs, 267
Breads houſe loſt never.

Bairns mother burſt never. (bread.
Bannoks [a tharfecake oat bread is better nor na kin
Better a laying hen nor a lyin crown.

Better be dead as out pt the faſhion, Fi
Better buy as borrow, —
Better have a mouſe in the pot as no fleſh.

C,

Ourt to the town, and whore to the window,
dgers [meal-men}] ſpeaks of packſaddles,
Changing of words islighting of hearts.
Charge your friend or you need,
Cats eats that huſſies ſpares.
Caſt not forth the old water while the new come in,
Crabbit was, and cauſe had.
Compariſons are odious.
Come not to the counſel uncalled.
Condition makes, and condition. breaks.
Cut duelles in every town.
Cold cools the love that kindles over hot.
Ceaſe your ſnowballs caſting.
Come it aire, come it late, in ay comes the cow-
quake.
Courteſie is cumberſom to them that knows it not.
Chalke is na ſheares, .

Scottiſh Proverbs,

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De in hill as ye wald do in hall.

Do as ye wald be done to.

Do weill and have weill.

Dame judge warily.

Dead and marriage makes tearm-day,
Draffis good enough for ſwine.

Do the liklieſt, and God will do the beſt,
Drive out the inch as thou haſt done the ſpan,
Dead men bites not.

Daffing Ljeſting] good for nothing.

Dogs will part ſwine,

Dirt parts company. .

Drink and drouth comes ſeldom together,
Daft talk dow nor.

Do well and doubt na man, and do weill and doubt ]

all men.
Dead at the one door, and herſhip at the other.
Dummie [adumb man] cannot lie.

E.

Arly maiſter, lang knave.

Eaten meat is good to pay.
Eild Cold age ] wald have honour,
Evening leavings is good morning fodder,

Every

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Every land hes the furrow, and every corn hes the

— caſſe.

Every man wiſhes the water to his own mylne.

Every man can rule an ill wife but he that hes her.

Eat meaſurelie and deſie the mediciners.

Every man for himſelf ( quoth the Merteine)

Every man flames the fat ſows arſe.

Experience may teach a fool.

Every man wates beſt where his own ſhoe binds
him.

Efter lang aiming, never impreſſion.

Efter word comes weird.

Efter delay comes a lette.

F.

ubt Air fowles hes fair feathers. .
Fair promiſes makes fools fain.
Fools are fain of removing.
Falſhood made never a fair hinder end.
Freedom is a fair thing.
For tint thing care nor,
Fool haſte is no ſpeed,
Fools let for truſt,
For love of the nurſe, mony kiſſes the bairne.
Folly is a bonny dog.
Fair words break never bone, foul words breaks
many ane.
Foul water quenches fire.
Far

270 Scottiſh Proverbs.
Far ſought, and dear bought, is good for Ladies-

For fault of wiſe men, fools fit on benches.

Fools makes feaſts, and wiſe men eats them,

Foolsare fain of right nought,

Forbid a thing, and that we will do.

Follow love and it will fleethee, flee love and it will
followthee,

Fegges after peace.

Fools ſhould have no chappin ſticks,

Friendſhip ſtands not in one ſide.

Few words ſufficeth to a wiſe- man.

Fire is good for the farcie.

Fidlers dogs and flies comes to feaſts uncalled.

Fill full and had full makes a ſtiff man.

G.
Race is beſt for the man. (friend.
Giff gaff [one gift for another] makes good
Good wine needs not a wiſpe.

Good cheir and good cheap garres many haunt the
houſe.

God ſends men cold as they have clothes to.

Gods help is neirer nor the fair evin.

Give never the wolf the wether to keep.

Good will ſnould be tane in part of payment.

God ſends never the mouth but the meat wich it.

Girn when ye tie, and laugh when ye louſe.

Go to the Devil and biſhop you. G

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Scottiſh Proverbs,

Go ſhoe the geeſe.
God ſends meat, andthe Devilſends cooks,

271

H,

Hue is good kitchine meat.
He that is far from his geir, is neir his $kaith,

Had I fiſh,was never good with garlick,

He mon have leave to ſpeak that cannot had his
tongue.

He that truſts to lent falln plows, his land will ly
ley.

He x i ſure that fell never,

He that will not hear motherhead, ſhall hear ſtep-
motherhead.

He that grows angry without cauſe, ſhould meaſe
without mends.

He that may notas he would, mon do as he may.

He that ſpares to ſpeak, ſpares to ſpeed.

He is weil eaſit that hes ought of his own, when
others goes to the meat.

He that is welcome, faires weil.

Ne that does ill hates the light.

He that ſpeaks the thing he ſhould not, hears the
things he would not.

He that is evil deemd is half hanged.

Help thy ſelf, and God will help thee,

He that ſpends his geir on a whore, hes both ſhame
and skaith. L

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227 Scottiſh Proverbs,
He that forſakes miſſour, miſſour forſakes him,
Half a tale is enough to a wiſe man.
He that hewes over hie, the chip will fall into his eye,
He that cats while he laſt, will be the war while
he die,
He is a weak horſe that may not bear the ſaidle.
He that borrows and builds, makes feaſts and goes
a goſſiping , drinks and is not dry, theſe three | |
are not thrifty.
He is a proud Tod that will not ſcrape his own hole, | !
He is wiſe when he is well, can had him fa. |
He is poor that God hates, }
He is wiſe that is ware 1n time,
He is wiſe that can make a friend of a foe. E
Hair and hair, makes the cairles head baire : 1
Hear all parties. t
H

He that is redd for windleſtraws, ſhould not ſleep
in lees. f

He riſes over early that is hangit or noon. H
Heis not the fool that the fool is, but be that with H
the fool deals. H

He that tholes overcomes.

He loves me for little, that hates me for nought,

He that hes twa herds, is able co ger the third.

He is a ſairie begger that may not gae by ane mans
door.

Hall benches are ſlippery.

He is not the beſt wright that hewes the manieſt
ſpeals.

He that evil does, never good weines.

Hooredome and grace, can never bide in one I”
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Scottiſh Proverbs. 273
He that compts all coſtes, will never put plough in
the earth.
He that ſlays, hall be (lain.
He that is ill of his harberie, is good of his way
kenning.
He ws; will not when he may, ſhall not when he
wald.
Hanging ganges be hap.
He is a fool that forgets himſelf,
Happy man, happy cavil.
He that comes uncalld, fits unſeryd.
He _ comes firſt to the hill, may fit where he
will, .
He that ſhames, ſhall be ſhent.
He gangs early to ſteal, that cannot ſay na.
He ſhould have a long ſhafted ſpoon that ſups
pottage with the Devil.
Heirs above that deals land.
He that ought the cow, goes neareſt her tail.
He is worth na weill that may not byde na wae.
He ſhould have a hail pow, that calls his neighbour
nikkienow.
He that hes gold =P buy land.
He that counts but his hoſte, counts twiſe.
He that looks not or he loup, will tall or he wit of
bimſelf,
Haſte makes waſte,
ulie [ſoftly] and fair, men rides far journeys,
e that marries'a daw, eats meikle dirt.
e that marries or he be wiſe , will die or he
thrive,
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174 Scottiſh. Proverbs,
Hunting, hawking, and paramours, for ane joy,
a — Eee *

Hald in geir, helps well.

He is twiſe glad, that firs on a ſtone.

He that does his turn in time, ſits half idle.

He plaints early, that plaints on his kail,

He is good that faild never.

Half aunch, is half fill.

He is a ſairie cook that may not lick his own
finger.

Hunger is hard in a found maw.

He ſhould wear iron ſhone that bydes his neigh-
bours deed,

Hame, is hamelie.

He that is hated of his ſubjects, cannot be counted
a king.

Hap anda half: penny, is warlds geir enough.

He _ me skabbed, becauſe l will — him

e.

He is blind that eats his fellow, but far blinder that
lets him.

Have God, and have all.

Honeſty is na pride.

He that fiſhes afore the net, lang or he fiſh get.

He tine never a_ cow, that wept for a needk,

He that hes na geir to loſe, hesſhins to pine.

He that takes all his geir fra himſelf, and gives to
his bairns , it were weill ward to take
malletand knock out his brains,

He fits full ſtill that hes a riven breech,

He that does bidding, ſerves na beating. 1

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Scontiſh " Proverbs. 275

He that blaws beſt bears away the horn,

He is weill provided within, that will neither bor-
row nor len,

Hea will gar a deaf man hear,

He is faireſt dung when his an wand dings him.

** = at wil that wich angry heart can bold

im ſtill. |

Proverbial ſpeeches of perſons given to ſuch

vices or vertues as follows.

f greedy perſons it is ſaid,
E can hide his meat and ſeek more.
He will ſee day at a little hole.

He _ for drink, though drought be his ex-
rand,

of well chilled perſons,

He was born in Auguſt.
He ſees an inch before his noſe.

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of willfall perſons,

He is at his wits end,

He hears not at that car.

He wald fain be fordwart if he wiſt how.

He will not give an inch of his will, for a ſpan of
his thrift.

of vonſters or new upſtarts.

His wind ſhakes no corn.

He thinks himſelf na payes peir.

He counts himſelf worthy meikle myce dirt,

Henry Cheike never flew a man until he came to
bim. |

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of fleyit perſons,

His heart is in his hoſe,

He is war frighted not he is hurt.

He looks as the wood were full of thieves,
He looks like the laird of pity.

He looks like a Lochwhaber axe.

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Scottiſo Proverbs, 177

of falſe perſons,

He will get credit of a houſe full of unbored mill-
ſtones. . 5

He looks up with the one eye, and down wich the
other. | 367 i oH

He can lie as weillas a dog can lick a diſh,

He lies never but when the holen is green.

He bydes as faſt as a cat hound with a ſacer.

He wald gar a man trow that the moon is made of
green cheis, or the cat took the heron.

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of miſnortured perſons, -.

He hes a braſen face.
He knows not the doot be the doot bar.
He ſpits on bis own blanket.

1 unprofitable fooliſh perſons

He harpes ay on ane ſtring.

He robs Peter to pay Paul.

He rives the kirk to thatch the quier.

He wags a wand in the water. ;
He that rides or he be ready, wants ſome of bis

geir.
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278 Scortiſh". Proverbs,

of weillie perſons,
He can hald the cat to the ſun,
He kens his oatmeal among other folks kail, 1

He changes for the better.
He is not wp daft as he pretends him.

= of angry perſons.

He hes pit on 2 nette.
He — not gotten the firſt ſeat of the midding the

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He takes pepper in the noſe.

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of unconſtant perſons, |

He is like a widder cock,

He hes changed his ripper, or his cloak on the o-
ther men |

He is like a dog on a cat.

His evening ſong and morning ſong are not both
alike,

Heisan Aberdeen. — taking his word again.

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Scottiſh Proverbs.

of perſons ſpeaking pertinently,

He hes hit the nail on the head,
4 hes touched him in the quick.

of wtaſters and divers,

He hes not a heal nail to claw him with,
He hes not a * to buy his dog a leaf.
He is as poor as Job.

he He is as bair as the birch at Zule evin.

He begs at them that borrowit at him.

He hes brought his pack to a fit ſpead.

He is on the ground.

His hair grows through his hood.

He hes cryed himſelf diver,

0- of proud perſons,

He counts his half-penny good ſilver.
th | He makes meikle of his painted ſheits,

He goes away with lifted up bead,

He anſwers en to.

He hes not that to ſwear by,

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of untymous perſons,

He is as welcome as water in a rivin ſhip.
He is as welcome as ſnaw in harveſt. {|

Of raſh perſons,

He ſets all on ſex or ſevin.
He ſtumblesat a ſtrea and loupes at a bank,

f ignorant perſons,

He does as the blind man when he caſts his ſtaff.

He brings a ſtaff to his own head.

He gars his awn wand ding him.

He takes after the goat that caſis all down at evin.

He hes good skill of roſted wooll, when it ſtinks it
is enough.

of effeminate perſons,

He is Job» Thomſones man, coutching carle.
He wears ſhort hoſe,

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Scott iſb Proverbs,

Of drankards,

His head is full of bees.

He may write to his friends.

His handis in the panyer.

He is better fed nor nortured.

He needs nota cake of bread at all his kin,

of hypocrites.

He hes meikle prayer, but little devotion.

He runs with the hound and holds with the hair.
He hes a face to God, and another to the Devil.
He is a wolf in a lambs skin.

He breaks my head, and ſince puts on my hood,
He can ſay, my joy, and think it not.

He ſleeps as dogs does, when wives ſiſts meal.
He will go to bell for the houſe profit,

J.

1 is a ſairie brewing, that is not good in the neu-
j

ng.
It is tint that is done to child and auld men,
Il weids waxes weill.

In

232 Scottiſh Proverbs.

In ſome mens aught mon the auld horſe die.

It is a true bourd that men ſees wakin.

In ſpace comes grace.

It is ill to bring out of the fleſh that is bred in the
bane. |

IIl win, ill warit.

It is a filly flack where the zowe bears the bell,

It is a ſin to lie on the Devil.

It is eaſie to do, that the awn {elf will,

It is good mowes that fills the womb.

It is na time to ſtoup when the head is aff.

It is fair in hall, where beards wags all,

It will come in an hour that will not come in a year.

If chou do na ill, do na ill like.

If thou ſteal not my kail, break not my dyke,

If ye may ſpend meikle, put the more to the fire.

If I can get his cairt ata whelming, I ſhall lend it a

pur,
If I may not keep gooſe, I ſhall: keep geſline.
It is kindly that the poke favour of the herring,
It is eithto cry zule on another mans coſt,
Tike [each] a man as he loves, let him ſend to the
cooks.
It is eith to ſwim where the head is holden up.
It is well deſerved they have ſorrow that buys with
their ſilver.
If ane will not, another will.
It is ill to take breeches offa bare arſe, J
It is dear bought honey that is lickt off a thorn,”
If God be wichus, wha will be againſt us, |
It is weill warit that waſters want geir.
le

he

Ar.

Scottiſo Proverbs, 283

Ic is ill to bring up the thing that is not therein.

It that lyes not in your gate, breaks not your ſhins.

It is na play where ane greits, and another laughs.

If a man knew whatwald be dear, he wald be bur
merchant for a year,

It is true that all men ſays,

I have a good bow, but it is inthe caſtle,

It is hard to fling at the brod [ a ſtick that children
uſe, when they play at penny prick] or kick at
the prick,

I|k man mend ane, and all will be mendit.

It is a ſairie collope that is tain off a Capone.

Ill bairnes are beſt heard — home.

It is ill to wakin ſleeps

I birds makes fat — *

It is hard to wife , and chrive in a year.

It is good ſleeping in a heal skin.

It is not tint that is done to friends.

It is ill to draw a ſtrea before an auld cat.

It is a paine both to pay and pray.

It is good fiſhing in muddy waters. (knight.

It is little of Gods might, to make a poor man 4

Itis good — without meal.

It is a good gooſe that drops ay.

It is not the habite that makes the monk.

It is not good to want and to have.

It hes neither arſe nor elbow,

I ſhall fir on his skirt. (cow,

It is a bair moore that he goes over and gets not a

I ſhall hold his noſe onthe grindſtone.

It goes as meikle in his heart as in his heed,

It goes inat the one ear, and out at the other, It

— * — —
— — o— —

284 Scortiſh Proverbs,

It is na mair pittie to ſee a woman greit, nor to ſee
a gooſe go bare fir.

It is weill ſaid, but wha will bell the'cat.

It is ſhort while ſeen the louſe boore the langelt.

I have a ſliddrie eill by the tail.

It is as meit as a ſow to beara ſaddle,

It is as meit as a thief for the widdie.

I wald I had as meikle pepper as he compts himſelf
worthy myſe dirt.

It will be an ill web to bleitch,

I cannot find you baich tales and cars.

It is ill to make a bloun horn of a rods tail.

If ever ye make a lucky pudding I ſhall eat the prick,

It that God will give, the Devil cannot reave.

In a good time I ſay it, in a better leave it,

It's a filly pack that may not pay the cuſtome.

I have ſeen as light green.

It's a cold coal to blow at.

It's a ſair field where all are dung dowd.

It's a ſair dung bairn that dare not greit.

I wat where my awn ſhoe bindes me. |

If ye wanted me and your meat, ye wald want ant
good friend, | 41

K.

Ame — kame ſair.

Kindneſs comes of will.
Kindneſs will creep here it may not gang.
Kindneſs cannot be bought for geir. =
Kail ſpaires bread,

Kameſterd-

elf

$cottiſh proverbs.

Katneſters are ay greaſie.
Knowledge is eith born about.
Kings are out of play. b
Kings and Bares oſt worries their keepers.
Kings hes long ears.

Kings caff is worth other mens corn.
Kindoebs lies not ay inane ſide of the houſe,

*

28;

L,

[xe intermeddling makes good friends.

Long tarrying takes all the thank away,

Little good is ſoon ſpendit.

Lang lean makes bameald cattel.

Little wit makes meikle travel.

Learn young, learn fair,

Like draws to like, & a skabbed horſe to an ald dyke,
Laith to the bed, laith out of the bed.

Little may an ald horſe do, if he may not nye.

Let them that are cold blow at the coal.

Lang ſtanding, and little offering makes a poor priſe.
Love hes na lack.

Leave the court, before the court leave thee.

Light ſupper makes long life.

Lykit geir is half bought.

Lordſhips changes manners.

Light winning makes a heavy purſe.

Live and let live.

| Liveleſs, faultleſs,

. Laich to the drink, and leath fta it.

Little ſaid, ſoon mendit. *

Lightly

236 Scottiſh” Proverbs,
Lightly comes, lightly goes,

Laſt in the bed, beſt beard,

Laca is lang and tedious.

Little waits an ill huſſie what a dinner holds in,
Laddes will be men,

Lauch and lay down again,

Likelie lies in the myre, and unlikelic goes by it.
Let him drink as he hes brewed.

Like to die mends not the kirk yard.

Luck anda bone voyage.

Lang or ye cut Falkland wood with a pen knife,
Love me littleand love me lang.

Let alone makes mony lurdon.

Little troublesthe eye, but far leſs the ſoul,

Little kens the wife that fits by the fire, how the
wind blows cold in hurle burle ſwyre.

M.

Ma yrons in the fire atonencedie. |

Maidens ſhould be meek until they be married.

Men may buy gold over dear.

Mony purſes holds friends together,

Meat and cloath makes the man.

Mony hands makes light work,

Make not twa mews of ane

Meat is good, but menſe is better.

Mony maſters, quoth the frog to the harrow, when
every tooth took her a knock, .

Mint Coffer] or ye ſtrike.

Meaſure, is treaſure.

Mony

<I<F<4 <4 I III 4 I 42

Many ſmals makes a great.

Miſter makes men of craft.

Meſſengers ſhould neither

Man propons, but God di
he | Mony man ſerves a thankle

Scoxtifh Proverbs,

Mony men does lack, that yat wald fain have in their
Miſterfull folk mon not be mensſull.

Maiſterie mawes the meadows down.
Mony ſpeaks of Robin Hood,Y never ſhot in his bow.

Meikle water runs where che miller ſleeps,
Meikle mon a good heart endure,
Mony cares for meal that hes bakin bread enough.
Meikle ſpoken, part mon ſpill,
be headed nor hanged.
Men are blind in their own cauſe,
Mony words wald have meikle drink.

ſpons.
þ maſter

Mony words fills not the furlot.

Mony kinsfolk, but few friends,

Men goes over the dyke at

the ebbeſt,

Might oftentimes overcomes right.

Miends is worth miſdeeds
of | Meikle head, little wit.
Muſtard after meat.

Millers takes ay the beſt. toll with their own hand,
Mony man ſpeirsthe gate he knows full well.

Muſlel not the oxens mouth.
Meikle hes, wald ay have mair.

Mony tynes the half mark whinger, for the half-

ff Penny hong,
Make not meikle of little.

Mony man makes an errand to the hall, to bid the

Lady good-day.

288 Scottiſh Proverks.

Mony brings the\raike, but few the ſnovell.
Make no balkes of good bear land.

March whiſquer was never a good fiſher,
Meat and maſſe never hindred no man.

N,

Ature paſſes norture,
Na man can baith ſup and blaw at once,
Nothing enters ina cloſe hand.
Need makes vertue.
Need hes na law.
Neireſt the Kirk, farreſt fra God.
Neireſt the King, neireſt the widdie.
New lords, new laws.
Na man may puind for unkindneſs.
Neireſt the heart, neireſt the mouth.
Never rode, never fell. (ſpin.
Need gars naked men run, and ſorrow gars webſters
Neir is the kirtle, but neirer is the fark,
Nothing is difficile to a well willit man.
Na man makes hisawn hap.
Na reply is beſt.
8 ſooner to light, then that which is
long hid | 1

Na man can play the fool ſa weill as the wiſe man.

Na penny, na pardon: - |

Na man can ſeek his marrow in the churne, ſa weill
as he that hes been in it himſelf,

% Wet wed wwadt

pin.
ters

289

Scottiſh © Proverbs,
ä

Ver faſt, over louſe.
Of anuch men leaves.
Over great familiarity genders deſpite.
Oft compting makes good friends.
Over narrow compting culzies na kindneſs,
Out of ſight, our of langer.
Oftwa ills chooſe the leaſt.
Of other mens lether, men takes large whanges,
Over jolly dow not.
Of the abundance of the heart, the mouth ſpeaks,
Of all war, peace is the final end,
Ofilldebtours, men takes oats,
Of need make vertue.
Of the earth mon the dyke be builded,
Of aneill, comes many,
Over hore over cold.
Over heigh, over low.
Over meikle of ane thing, is good for nathing,

P.

Enny wiſe, pound fool.

prieſts and — makes ſoul houſes.
pride and lazineſs wald have meikle uphald.
put your hand na farder nor your ſleive may reach.
Poor men are fain of little thing.
Play with your peirs.
Pith is good in all plays.

u Put

290 Szottiſh Proverbs,

Put twa half-pennies in a purſe, and they will draw
together.

Painters and Poets have leave to lie.

Poſſeſſion is worth an ill chartour,

Pride will have a fall, (vertue.

poverty parts good c 7, and is an enemy to

put not your hand betwixt the rind and the tree.

Poor men they ſay hes na ſouls.

* Patience perforce.

Proviſion in ſeaſon, makes a rich houſe,

put that in the next parcel.

Peter in, and Paul out.

Plenty is na dainty. -

Puddings and paramours wald be hotelie handlit.

.

Uhair [where] the Deer is ſlain, ſome bloud
will lie.

Quhen the eye ſees it ſaw not, the heart will think

it thought not.

uhen wine is in, wit is out.
Quhenthe ſteed is ſtowne, ſhut the ſtable door.
Quhen the Tod preaches, beware of the hens.

uhen the cup is fulleſt, bear it evineſt. (ning.
That better is the douſe that the da riſes in the mot-
Quhen theeves reckons, leall men comes to their geit.
Quhen l am dead, make me a caudle.
Qubiles the hawk hes, and whiles he hunger hes,
hen the craw flees, her tail follows.
Quhen the play is beſt, it is beſt to leave.

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Q
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Q
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Scottiſh Proverbs, 291

Quha may wooe without coſt. .

Qubiles thou, whilesT, ſo goes the bailleri,

Quhen a man is full ofluſt, his womb is full of leeſings

Qaha may hold that will away.

+ | Quhen tayloursaretrue, there little good to ſhew.

) {| Quhenthy neighbours houſe is on fire, take heed
to thy awn,

Quhen the iron is hot, it ĩs time to ſtrike.

Quhen the belly is full, the bones wald have reſt,

Quhom God will help, na man can hinder.

Quhenall men ſpeaks, na man hears,

Quhen the — is fra hame, the tablecloths tint,

Quhair ſtands your great horſe.

Quhair the pig breaks, let the ſhells lie.

Quhen friends meets, hearts warmes,

Quhen the well is full, it will run over.

5 R.

k Eaſon bound the man.

Ruſe [praiſe] the foord as ye find it.
Ruſe the fair day at evin.
Rackleſs youth, makes a gouſtie age.
Ryme ſpares na man,
Reavers ſhould not be tewers.
Rule youth weill, andeild will rule the ſell,
r. | Kome was not biggit on the firſt day.

S.

Ike man, ſike maſter.
rides, 2 7
2

*

292 Scottiſh Proverbs,

Shod in thecradle, bairfoot in the ſtubble.

Sike lippes, fike latace, 1

Sike a man as thou wald be, draw thee to ſike com-

Soothe bourd is na bourd.

Seldome lies the Devil dead by the dyke fide.

Saying goes good cheap.

Spit on the ſtane, it will be wet at the laſt,

Soft fire makes ſweet malt.

Sorrows gars webſtcrs ſpin,

Sturt pays na debt.

Sillie bairns are eith to lear.

Saw thin, and maw thin.

Soonrype, foon rotten,

Send and fetch,

Self deed, ſelf fa.

Shame ſhall fall them that ſhame thinks, to do them-
ſelves a good turn,

Sike father, ſike ſon, &c.

Seill comes not while ſorrow be gone,

Shees a foule bird that fyles her own neſt.

Speir at Jockthief my marrow, if I be a leal man,

Soon gotten, ſoon ſpendit.

Sike prieſt, (ike offering.

She is a ſairie mouſe that hes but ane hole.

Surfer (lays mae nor the ſword,

Seik your ſauce where you get your ail,

Sokand ſeall is beſt,

Sike anſwer as a man gives, ſike will he get.

Small winning makes a heavy purſe,

Shame is paſt the ſhedd of your hair, ;

Send him to the ſea and he will not get water. - 4
| ame

—

eee ,, WY I VR”

an,

Scottiſh Proverbs. 293
_ [bleſs] you weill fra the Devil and the Lairds
ns. '
She that takes gifts her ſelf, ſhe ſels, and ſhe that
gives, does not ells.
Shroe the ghaſt that the houſe is the war of.
Shew me the man, and I ſhall ſhew you the law.

Swear by your burnt ſhines, (of ir,
Sairie be your meil poke, anday your fiſt inthe nook
|
He mair haſte the war ſpeid.
Tyde bydes na man,

Twa daughters and a back door, are three ſtark theeves,

There was never 2 cake, but it had a make.

There came never a large fart forrh of a Wrans arſe.

Toome [empty] baxges rattles.

The thing that is truſted, is not forgiven.

Take part of the pelf. when the pack is a dealing,

Tread on a worm, and ſhe will ſteir ber tail.

They are ligh iy robbed that hes their aun.

The Craw thinks her awn bird faireſt.

There is little to the rake to get after the biſſome.

good cheap that brings nathing hame.

Thraw Ctwiſt] the wand while it is green,

The ſhooemakers wife is worſt ſhod.

The worſt warld that ever was, ſome man wan.

They will know by a halſ. penny if a Prieſt will take offering;

Tyme tryes the truch.

The weeds overgaes the corn.

Take tyme while time is, for time will away.

The piper wants meikle that wants the nether chaps,

They are welcome that brings

The langer we live, the mae ſtrange we lee.

here are many ſoothe words ſpoken in

There is na thief without a receiver,

99
3

194 Scotriſß Proverbs,
There came never ill of a good adviſement.
There is na man ſa deaf, as he that will not hear,
There was never a fair word inhicding,
I he mouth that lyes, ſlayes the ſoul,
Trot mother, trot father, how can'the foal amble.
They were never fain that ſhrugged.
Twa wolts may worrie ane ſheep,
Twa fools in ane houſe is over many,
The day hes eyne, the night hes cars,
The tree falls not at the firſt ſtraĩke.
The mair ye tramp in a turde, ir grows the breader.
There is none without a fault.
The Devil is a buſie Biſhop in his awn diocie.
There is no friend toa friend in need,
There is na fool to an auld fool.
Touch a good horſe in the back, and be will fling,
There is remeid for all things bur ſtark deid.
There is na medicine for fear.
T he weakeſt goes to the walls,
That which huſſies ſpares, cars eats,
Thou wilt get na mair of the cat bat the in.
There mac madines nor makine,
They laugh ay that winnet.
Twa wits is better nor ane.

hey put at the cairt that is ay gangand.

hree may keep counſel if twa be away»
? hey are good willie of their horſe that hes nane.
The mae the merrier, the fewer the bettet cheat.
The blind horſe is hardieſt.
There mae ways to the wood nor ane,
T here is meikle between word and deed,
They that ſpeirs meikle, will get wort of part.
The leſs play the better.
The mair colt, the mair honour,
There is nothing more precious nor time,
True love kyths in tyme of need, .

There are many fair words in the marriage making, but ew

in the portion payi
Thehigher up, —

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T
T

few
The

Seortiſh -Praverks, 255
The mother of miſellief is na malt nor a gnat wing, |
Tarrowing bairns were never fat.

There lirtle ſap in dry peaſe bulls.

This bolt came 5 out of your bag,

Thy tongue is na ſlander.

Take him up there with bis fave and four of them rotten.

The next time ye daunce, wit whom ye take by the hand,

1 he gooſe pan is above the ralt,

Thy thumb is under my belt.

There is a dog in the well.

The malt is — the beir.

Touch me not on the ſair heel.

The pigs overgses the ald ſwine,

Take a man by his word, and a cow by her horn.

There meikle hid meat in a goole eye.

They had never aa ill day that bad a good evening.

The-e belongs mair to a bed nar four bair legs,

The greateſt clarks are not the wiſeſt men.

Thou ſhould not tell thy foe when thy ſit ſlides.

The of God is geit enough.

Twa meales makes the third a glutron,

This warld will not laſt ay. ;

The Devil and the Dean begins with a letter, when the Devil
hes the Dean, the kirk will be the bester.

They are as wiſe that ſpeir not.

There is nothing ſo crouſe as a new waſhes louce.

* W.
nea warrand
Wilkes that weill is,

Well done, foon done.

Weapons pretends peace.

Wilckt helps weak file

Wiſhers and walders are poor houſehalders.
Words are but wind, but firokes ate the Devil.
Wark beats witneſs wha weill does.
Wealth gars wit waver.

Weillbydes, weill betydes.

Wrang compt, is nu payment.
Wrang hears, wrang an(wergives. .

Women and bairns keeps
. Waken no: Heeping dogs.

- Uſe makes
Unskild mediciners, and horſemarſhels, lays both man & beaſt
Wha: reakes of he feed, where the dow nought,

.

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: — =
296 : L

Wich empry hand, ares tans 1

Weill wats the mouſe, the cars our of the hot Fy

Well worth all, char gars the draw,

We hounds flew the hair, quoth che meſſoun.

Wonder laſts but nine nightsing owni,
of that they know not.

Wonr beguilt the Lady,

— — to pluc |
mothet daug ter.
—— and ſtrengrh in a fool.
Wit in a poor mans head in v mountain avails not
Wells him and wooes him that hes a Biſhop in his kin,

B will break your neck and your faſt Yike in his houſe,
Ye ſtrive againſt the ſtream.
Youth never caſts fer petrill.
Ye ſeek hot water under dercold yce.
Ye dfives ſnail co ame, |
Ye ride a bootleſs errand.
Ye ſeek grace at a graceleſs face.
Ye learn your father to get bairns,
Ye may nor i in Rome and tive with the Pope, 7
Youth and age will never agree.
Ye may puind for debt, but not for unkindneſs,
Ye breid of the cat, ye wald fain ent fiſh, but ye have r
to weet your feet.
Ye breid ofthe cuckow, — LA
Ye ſhould be a king of your
— war .
e may drink of the water, but not byte of the bank.
Ye will —— he Dev were dead,
— — cherry,
Ye breid of the millers dog, ye lick yout mauth or the AN

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